Raden, a decorative lacquerware technique, uses the glimmering inner layer of shells. The inlay appears to float resplendently on the black lacquer, inspiring artisans to take the art into the future.

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

Based on that tradition, for Colored Lights, I added color by using mother-of-pearl inlay and dried lacquer powder, as well as further applying layers of gold powder in differing particle sizes to ...