Koji Ando

I blow into the glass, giving it shape. I apply heat to the shape that remains. The shape that is created transforms through melting, and wavers as it appears from the kiln. The shape continues to change with each cycle, and the boundary of being created becomes unclear. The shape made by my hands loses its outline as it melts, and disappears into the material as a structure. My action becomes a trace of the material; it feels as if the autonomy of the form transfers from me to the material. And observing the final shape that appears, I meditate on what brought it into beig.