“I have been pondering the mystery of how earth becomes ceramic for more than 25 years,” says ceramic artist Takayuki WWATANABE, who lives and works in Izunokuni city, Shizuoka Prefecture. Surrounded by the Izu Peninsula—renowned in Japan for its remarkably varied soils—he has spent decades observing the land beneath his feet. Digging his own clay, he has produced works ranging from functional vessels to sculptural forms. Through these practices, Hes focuses on the life cycles mediated by earth, discovering in its transformations the principles by which formless forces give rise to tangible forms.

Today, his interests extend beyond clay as a mere material, toward the broader expanse of the world we perceive. The fields and mountains that are both his home and his studio have become the medium through which new “forms” emerge. "In Entropy" — we exist amid a scattering of diverse energies in apparent disorder. What Watanabe calls “form” is the encounter with a sculptural moment that temporarily makes visible the totality of the environment in which we live.

Over the course of 25 years, he has continually shifted between micro and macro perspectives, always with the subject “Me,” seeking through the gestures of his making to grasp the logic of this world. This exhibition presents “forms” that have evolved from natural beauty into an intentional beauty—crystalline expressions of deepened thought.