Studio Visit with Danielle Yukari
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Last week, David and I stopped by Danielle's studio to gain a greater insight into her design process for our edition of 10 seder plates. Her studio was decorated like her ceramic work - bright, airy colors, freehand drawings, and an appreciation of wabi-sabi imperfection.
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Dani began her ceramics practice in São Paulo, with a studio at Casa do Povo, in the Jewish neighborhood of Bom Retiro. Casa do Povo is a cultural center founded by Jewish refugees in 1946, born of a double desire: to pay homage to those who died in the Nazi concentration camps and to create a space that would unite the wide variety of associations that had been born in Brazil, in the international struggle against fascism – thus providing continuity to the secular, humanist, Jewish culture that nazi-fascism had attempted to suppress in Europe.
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Working with artists across cultural lines allows us to think about the history of Jewish diaspora, through thoughtfully made objects demonstrating how Jewish history has criss-crossed around the globe.