The conversations between narrative drawing and organic shapes of clay

Free-hand carved stoneware

I work primarily with hand-built and thrown high-fire stoneware (1220°C) with free-hand carved and inlay decorative slips/underglazes. The illustrated works celebrate different carving techniques on slab-builtorganic-shaped vessels.

Open narratives of
stream of consciousness

Empower
Growth

My ceramics searching for conversations and mutual encouragement between the object and my drawings/paintings are deeply inspired by Surrealism, Automatic Drawing, Stream of Consciousness method, Oriental painting, Taoism and Phenomenology.

Rather than following a well-planed blueprint, I let the shape of the clay and drawing determine the composition. Like a spreading vine, her expressive pictures find ways to shape the object, forming the outlines and content, vice versa, to capture the flow of consciousness, stories and emotions. Instead of searching for uniformity and certainty, they call for a curiosity of the unknown, abnormal and asymmetrical. They create an open and often circular narrative that offer up an alternative way of telling stories.