About
I view myself as an observer of people’s reflection in front of impermanence. My work reflects humanity’s desire for permanence amid the transient nature of time. Ceramics, taking a thousand years to decompose, lasting much longer than human lifespan, satisfies to some extent our human desire for “eternity”. My practice explores the poetics of impermanence. Through inspirations from local custom to domestic practices to social media posts, revealing how people deal with the futility of life via their seemingly insignificant archives. I create ceramic sculptures that exist in a paradoxical state—between life and non-life, between elegance and kitsch, between the archaeological and the futuristic. My work is deeply influenced by historical vanitas paintings, where beauty and luxury are contrasted with inevitable decay. I am fascinated by how fragile materials embody impermanence and how meaning itself—especially meaning projected onto objects—can decay, shift, and be lost over time. I aim to capture the tension between what endures and what fades, ultimately reflecting on the ways we construct meaning through objects that will outlast us.