Melting Pint　　　　　　　 Hosomi Hiroko 　

My "creation" started from making accessories with a strong commercial meaning (in other words, the important purpose is to sell them in order to be supported), but after about 20 years of encounters and discoveries, challenges and failures, I arrived at the present point about 10 years ago.

The place where I landed is right in the middle of crafts and art, and, to put it positively, I can go back and forth between the two. Therefore, the range of my activities is (or should be) wide.
I always hope to create a place where my works can meet as many people as possible through as many activities as possible.　

The technique of creating objects by fusing metal and glass, which is the cornerstone of my work, was entirely self-taught. Now, I feel as if my mind has begun to move back to my original intention, or starting point, to reexamine the properties and characteristics of these materials and search for new forms of expression.　

Melting and melting" is one of the fundamental aspects of my work, which is common to both tin alloy and glass, the materials I use. The viscous melting characteristic of tin alloy creates a texture in the objects that makes them feel "as if they were alive. Furthermore, the shape created by the instantaneous hardening of the softness of the molten glass at high temperature is in sync with the shape of the object, giving it an even more vivid appearance.　

As if combining two seemingly dissimilar materials, many of the objects represent a new world in which creatures that would not normally mix (or that are not originally part of a set) are blended together. Creatures of the natural world that dissolve and disappear, and creatures that are born out of the dissolution.... I hope to create a new view of the world, as if we were repeating "samsara," the cycle of loss and rebirth.