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Catalan artist Claudí Casanovas feels a strong emotional connection to the earth. Wherever he works, he explores the character of the local clays. He made Deep Form in Japan, at the studio of ceramic artist Ryoji Koie, using a mixture of Japanese clays. This work embodies his response to that particular environment and also the international friendship between two artists. Casanovas’s work tests the physical and aesthetic limits of clay. He uses organic materials, metals and metal oxides to create openings and unusual colours. He cuts and sandblasts the surface, giving the appearance of extreme weathering or powerful geological processes.

Deep irregular bowl form made from mixed stoneware clays in bands of buff, orange, white, variegated black and white, and dark brown-grey, the surface pock-marked and impressed with band- and loop-like forms, the upper surface thinly and partially glazed.