Chapter 25: "Ilakka"

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter 25. <unk>. This chapter describes <unk> cab made in 2023 and measuring 35 centimeters high and 20 centimeters wide at the base, and 12 centimeters high at the top. It's a minute and a half long Speaker 1 00:00:20 Behind you and to your left, one meter away. There is a display case with three vessels of varying sizes. <unk> is the largest. If you were to run your hands up the sides from the bottom to top, your hands would go out and in, out and in four times. With the curves growing progressively small as you reached the top, they are slightly irregular and the exterior has not been glazed. So the reddish brown clay feels dry and slightly rough. Instead of an overall glaze cab had dipped her fingertips and white liquid clay and pressed it on the vessel while still wet, making botts all the way around top to bottom. There must be hundreds. Each dot has then been turned into a face using tiny black breaststrokes. Two eyebrows, two eyes, two dots, fur, nose and mouth. The variations of the breaststrokes change the identical faces into an array of expressions. Smiling, frowning, stern. To top it off, each face is encircled with small red thoughts, creating the bright ruff of a parka hood cab's. Use of her own biometrics is a way of literally imprinting herself and all who came before her on this object. This is echoed in the title's translation, my Extended Family. Speaker 0 00:01:38 Go to the next chapter to hear Kana talk about her artwork.