Art pieces by contemporary ceramic artist Teppei Ono are known to be extremely rare, as they are seldom presented in typical solo exhibitions or exhibition settings.

Arising in a context distinct from his everyday vessel-making, these works can be said to more directly reflect the artist’s inner thought and the accumulation of time.

debris is an object work composed of two disparate materials: ceramic and iron wire.

On the whitened glazed surface, traces of cracking and peeling remain, while blackened, oxidized iron wire is bundled—or rises as if being released.

The ceramic surface shaped by firing and time, and the inorganic iron lines charged with tension.

That contrast contains opposing states within a single mass: completion and collapse, stillness and motion.

The title “debris” means “fragments” or “rubble,” and at the same time symbolizes what remains of something lost—an existence that continues to persist even after its role has ended.

To break, to remain, and to continue existing while changing form.

There are no clear boundary lines between these states; debris stays within that ambiguous interval, quietly—yet with strong tension—appearing in space as a fragment that refuses to be resolved.

Those fragments wavering at the boundary quietly, yet vividly, reflect the artist’s philosophy.

Through ongoing dialogue with the artist, Rurbanism has been given a special opportunity to present this art piece.

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