Product name: SHIBOU Glass Rings
Artist: Haruna Sugie (杉江はるな)
Material: Borosilicate glass
Technique: Lampworking (solid work)
Sizes: in Japan ring sizes, one-of-a-kind creations, only one size per style (Size reference here)
Notes: Each piece of accessory will be gift wrapped in the original gift boxes.
Handcrafted in Tokyo, Japan
SHIBOU Series
This series represents the earliest body of work in her practice, rooted in a process of self analysis. Seeking to move beyond surface expression, she turned to a formative personal experience—her long-held complex about her body, and the physical and emotional toll of extreme dieting during adolescence. In Japan, where media-driven ideals often frame body fat as undesirable, she, too, was deeply influenced by these values. Through this work, she transforms what was once a source of insecurity—fat—into the translucent strength of glass, as a way of questioning and releasing fixed societal notions of beauty.
About Haruna Sugie:
Born in 1997 in Aichi, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. Sugie is a glass artist whose practice explores the interrelationship between the body, emotion, and perception. She began studying lampworking at Khan Glass Works in 2019. She received her BFA in Glass from the Department of Crafts and Industrial Design at Musashino Art University in 2022, and completed her MFA in Glass at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024. Working primarily with lampworking techniques using an oxygen burner, each piece is meticulously handcrafted. Her work engages with the inherent tension between fragility and strength within glass, expressing it as a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium that resides within human existence. Sugie creates both wearable works and spatial objects as extensions of the same line of inquiry. Through materials such as glass and mirrors, she examines the boundaries between self and other, and between the visible and the invisible. Through the properties of glass—transparency, reflection, and distortion—her practice further seeks to reconsider the formation and perception of the self within the evershifting conditions of contemporary society.
