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Keiso Yo, who creates unique artwork using ceramics, produced many pieces at a small studio named Tenjiku-Dai-Kobo in Koganecho, Yokohama, for three and a half years beginning in 2014. In recent years, this up-and-coming artist has been energetically exhibiting her work, in a solo exhibition at the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino Showcase Gallery, at Koganecho Bazaar, and a group exhibition in Taipei. Ceramics shaped like hearts and brains, meticulously painted in primary colors, feet twisted by foot-binding, Jomon pottery and flower vases decorated with female clay figurines—Yo’s work, with its motifs of internal organs and the body, burned into the back of your mind once you see it, contains the inevitability of confronting the fluctuation of her identity as an ethnic Chinese person living in Japan, and her anxieties and fears. At the same time, it is humorous pop art, and emits a unique energy. In recent years, she has moved from the physical theme to explore the foundation of life, with living things like weeds as motifs. At the 2018 Koganecho Bazaar, she attempted an installation using those motifs in her own way to interact with the area, creating a poetic, beautiful space. She is an artist whose future activities cannot be missed.