Cosmic Plants

Tokumaru Kyōko meticulously fashions the components of her sculptures from porcelain clay, then joins them together to create miniature, naturalistic environments that are at once familiar and fantastical. The undulation and elegant rhythm of her long leaves and twisting branches impart a weightless, aquatic quality to the work, which would seem to be playfully ironic given the brittle, hard quality of fired porcelain.