When you say the words pottery or ceramics, most people will think of earthy clay and glazes. On the other side of the spectrum are computer graphics and digital art, a wholly intangible media that’s made of bits and bytes. Combine these two vastly different fields and you get what artist Toshiya Masuda calls “image gap.”

Upon first glance—especially viewed through a screen—Masuda's art looks like pixelated versions of ordinary objects. But on closer observation, these are carefully composed ceramic blocks of color!

Check out a dozen more images—including an ashtray, a spilled beer and even a frying pan with a fried egg—at Spoon & Tamago below!