Design
Extrañas /
Strange
Creatures
STRANGE ANIMALS
9 pieces ceramics
created in Jingdezhen
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2025
Throughout the trip, I encountered many pieces of pre-Incan pottery. Their vivid presence and quiet humor deeply fascinated me. Although created centuries ago, these forms carried an immediacy and vitality that felt strikingly alive. After returning home, I found myself wanting to revisit those impressions through my own material language.
In this mini series, I allowed intuition and imagination to guide the forms. The creatures are not direct references to any historical object, but rather a personal response to the spirit I sensed in those ancient works. By experimenting with slips and glazes, I sought to build subtle differences in surface and character, allowing each piece to develop its own presence.
The playful quality that runs through the series reflects the lasting emotional imprint that the landscapes, cultures, and artifacts of South America left on me.
Criaturas
Extrañas /
Strange
Creatures
mini
within 10 × 8 × 8 cm each
4 sculptures
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Jingdezhen, China
2025
The playful quality running throughout the series reflects the lasting emotional imprint of South America’s landscapes, cultures, and artifacts on my creative imagination.
small-scale ceramics
created in Jingdezhen & Beijing
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2022–present
The iconic shape of the Kendama suggested angelic forms to me. Unlike their wooden, playable counterparts, these hand-crafted ceramic versions embody a delicate tension between strength and fragility. Ceramic—a material both resilient and vulnerable—stands in sharp contrast to the functional durability of wood, transforming a familiar toy into an object of quiet vulnerability and poetic presence.
Throughout the project, I experiment with different clays and glazes, exploring how subtle variations in material and surface can amplify the sense of life, movement, and tension in each piece.
The project is ongoing…
6 tabletop vessels
created in Beijing
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2023-2024
I create playful, intimate vessels, as if they exist to receive and hold those tears, giving form to the invisible, transient feelings that accompany them. These small tabletop works transform private, fleeting emotions into tangible, contemplative objects, inviting viewers to reflect on the fragility and resilience inherent in both materials and human experience.
The project is ongoing.