- Materials
- wood, lacquer, Hokkaido timber
- Techniques
- carving, wiped lacquer, chainsaw rough-cutting
- Classification
- wood, lacquer
瀬戸晋
Susumu Seto
Born in Osaka, he moved to Hokkaido when he entered university. After graduating he spent one year in the woodworking course of the Hokkaido-run Asahikawa technical training school (道立旭川高等技術専門学院), learning woodworking centred on furniture. After group and solo exhibitions he began making wooden vessels in 2007. He works in Asahikawa. [1]
Profile
Background
Seto was born in Osaka and moved to Hokkaido for university. After graduation he spent a year in the woodworking course at the Hokkaido-run Asahikawa technical training school, learning furniture-centered woodworking. He was in Higashi-Asahikawa by 2007, already making plates and bowls.
He moved from furniture-scale woodworking toward direct hand-carving of vessels. He sources local Hokkaido logs, cuts them down himself and leaves the carving history legible.
Practice
Mainly makes vessels and trays that keep hand-chisel marks, finished with wiped lacquer, increasingly milling and processing Hokkaido timber from logs himself. [3, 4, 5, 1]
Work over time
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Began making wooden vessels Began making wooden vessels in 2007 after group and solo exhibitions. [1]