The master potter was trying to create the perfect piece each time, and he would discard even the ones with the slightest flaw. So I chose to create new forms from them, because perhaps, I don’t believe completely in that kind of perfection.”To me, a piece of broken ceramic finds another piece, and they come to rely on one another. The cracks between them symbolise the wound… The work is a metaphor of the struggle of life that makes people more mature and beautiful as they overcome their sufferings.

The master potter was trying to create the perfect piece each time, and he would discard even the ones with the slightest flaw. So I chose to create new forms from them, because perhaps, I don’t believe completely in that kind of perfection.”To me, a piece of broken ceramic finds another piece, and they come to rely on one another. The cracks between them symbolise the wound… The work is a metaphor of the struggle of life that makes people more mature and beautiful as they overcome their sufferings.

– Yeesookyung (Korean artist) –

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