Kai Hong
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Uprising
cone 04 glazed fire, earthenware, mixed media

13.5" x 38" x 48" (installation view, pieces sold individually)

small beavers:  6” x 6.8” x 5.8” / 8.5” x 9.5” x 7.5” / 8” x 8.5” x 6.5”
large beavers:  5” x 13” x 16.25” / 5” x 12” x 12” / 12” x 22” x 9” / 13.5” x 12” x 8”
2016

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As a ceramic sculptor, I make animals protagonists to narrate their own stories about how animals are going to confront us, revealing their visceral emotions containing hatred and wrath. In addition, my art depicts the animals’ terrible status because of humans. With the sprawl of urban expansion, our municipal water system invades the beavers’ habitat, thus incurring human-wildlife conflict where they cannot dig beaver ponds, clogging our dams, and flooding our crop.

In my work, I investigate this tense confrontation between humans and animals – I make the animals hold objects: either found objects, like hammers and wrenches or clay tools that I have made. This juxtaposition of cartoony elements and the serious theme takes on the scene that we humans are consuming cute and innocent animals and then they resist and retaliate against us.