The Anatomy of Flight
Flight has long embodied humanity's desire to move beyond its limitations. In this body of work, I explore that idea not through representations of birds or aircraft, but through imagined forms that exist between the mechanical and the organic. Their silhouettes evoke wings, yet they belong to neither nature nor machine, occupying a space where familiarity gives way to speculation.
My practice reimagines ceramics through the language of contemporary design. Drawing from the clarity and functional thinking of European modernism, the material sensitivity of Japanese craftsmanship, and the cultural hybridity of Southeast Asia, I seek to create a contemporary ceramic language that respects tradition while remaining unafraid to evolve. Rather than reproducing inherited forms, I use clay to question how objects can be transformed into new expressions of function, memory, and imagination.
Each work in this series reflects a different state of flight, not as physical movement, but as an idea: possibility, uncertainty, aspiration, curiosity, and transformation. Though grounded in the weight of clay, these forms strive towards lightness, existing in the tension between what is engineered and what has evolved.
I think of these works as fossils from the future. They are not predictions of what lies ahead but imagined artefacts from futures that have yet to exist. Through them, I invite viewers to reconsider not only what ceramics can become, but how the objects we create today might one day become evidence of the futures we once imagined.
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