Land / Mindscape
White stoneware, wood
Various sizes
2007

This work, Land / Mindscape, is made with serious and deep consideration of various perspectives in ceramics. Through practice, study, and experimentation, I understand clay, and eventually find myself in the process, because I believe making pots is my own way of meditation. Therefore, I have achieved pleasure in working with the material, and joy in the transformation of raw material.

My work is an expression of my character, time, energy, and space. In fact, this composition can be a map, in other words, a representation of the exterior and interior of me. I use various shapes and qualities of pots for my work; by cumulating a number of pots, my work is massive, but not overwhelming: simple, but not monotonous: various, but not complicated. The pots are filled and emptied, and hidden and shown by stacking, making interesting profiles and negative spaces within the intuitive composition. This installation describes one moment, but the structure has the possibility of transformation and accessibility.

It is important that I am stacking pots in this installation. Stacking is the avenue to negating the functionality of pots, and thereby I present another insight into traditional ceramics. I made this installation as a suggestion for my transformation of craft to art. However, I could also be walking a line between craft and art. In addition, I have developed an arrangement of my ideas, through study and experimentation. I had an interest in larger scale work, because I felt that the work is thus visually more powerful, and I can engage the viewers with my work as not just pots, but as art.