The stacked tea bowls pose a contradiction between function and sculpture, referencing human interaction and the more compositional concerns of weight, shape, form and balance. The consequence of this is a sense of unpredictability, of familiar objects moving into and out of view.
The bowls look as though they could topple over in places and the raku glaze creates natural cracks and an unpredictable, unique pattern.
To receive this effect on the vessels, they have to go through an incredibly traumatic process which I compare to human beings. I believe that people have to go through good times and bad to become who they are as a person, in comparison, the ceramic vessel has to be heated to extreme temperatures and then cooled quickly, set on fire and cracked to become what it is.
The way in which the stacks are testing balance represents how people are all different and how trauma throws people off balance to the point where they are about to give up. This conveys a sense of exploring life and the struggle to claim identity.
