Ming Yuen-Schat
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Transverse

porcelain, under glaze and slip; multi-day wood fire in a Naborigama style kiln; thrown on a wheel in one single ring, cut and altered

4.5/8" x 4.7/8" each
2015

$110 (set)

My pottery is inspired by Asian sensibilities. It is a reinterpretation: a fusion of east and west. I enjoy deconstructing traditional forms, and challenging Western distinctions between functional and fine art.

My work is a juxtaposition of modernism and wabi-sabi. As an artistic form, wabi-sabi embraces the imperfect, and the deliberately crude. This is diametrically opposed to commercialized modernism, in which we place value in slick, symmetrical, machine-made objects. Wabi-sabi also references the wisdom of natural simplicity, and finding the spirit in the everyday.  For a potter, it is about connecting with the earth, being present, and seeing what comes.