Pools settled in deep hollows, jutting formations of stratigraphy, alternately matte and gleaming-wet surfaces: Osamu Kojima could easily be taken as a landscape artist, working in the medium of clay. Yet his work is also informed by the Japanese megalopolis, and its representation in science fiction anime and manga. He rightly considers ceramics as a technology – one of the world’s oldest – but one that is being reinvented constantly, in light of contemporary experience.