A Man-Made Creation Detailed Enough to Make Mother Nature Jealous...

Katsuyo Aoki is a Japanese ceramic artist with a knack for designing intricate skull-inspired sculptures. Winning award after award, Aoki takes the form of a human skull and transforms it into a complicated maze of ceramic beauty.

...I use ceramics as my material in my method of expression, incorporating various decorative styles, patterns, and symbolic forms as my principal axis in creating my works. The decorative styles and forms I allude to and incorporate in my works each contain a story based on historical backgrounds and ideas, myths, and allegories. Also, the technique of ceramics has a tradition that has been a part of the history of decoration over a long time, and I feel the delicateness and fragile tension of the substantial material well express my concept.

Check out the video of her work; even though the whole thing is in Japanese, it doesn't stop the art looking incredible.