Between seaweed and mollusks.
In 2025, I began taking stock of my work from the past 50 years. Not just in an Excel file, but I also want to make my website more complete. I start in the present and slowly descend into my past. That is how I discovered that there was hardly any work on it from my working period in 2000, four months in Japan. After I had shipped the ceramics, it took more than half a year for them to arrive home, and much of it was damaged. I immediately started gluing, but was so disappointed that I put everything back into its boxes and never looked at it again. Now, 25 years later, I have started unpacking and photographing the work again. It turns out much better than expected; sometimes I really can't figure out which piece was missing. And how beautiful those toasted forms from the wood-fired kiln are. The windblown ash makes them even more spatial and sculptural. In Takeo's supermarket, there was a huge marine aquarium with strange sea creatures, and in that respect, the Japanese are just like the French. Itadakimasu, "Enjoy your meal".