A dose of saucy Sunday strangeness brought to you by Japanese ceramicist and performance artist Urara Tsuchiya. Tsuchiya’s subversive ceramics are sexy, silly and shocking in equal measure—many involve multiple men, women and animals engaging in sexual acts, often presented in bowls, as if the protagonists themselves have opted to hide from prying eyes. “My ceramics make me laugh,” their creator said in an interview with Elephant earlier this year. “I think they’re quite cute, not in-your-face. Some of the people at my ceramics studio don’t like me, though, and they’re always trying not to show my work to their children!”
