Thursday, March 26, 2015

This is a small tea set made by a modern artist named Po Ching Fang he is a ceramics artist from Taiwan. It was hand built with porcelain and stoneware. It does not really remind me of anything besides that I did an artist study on him in my first ceramics class. It is something else. It is relaxing and comforting. His father in law is a tea farmer in Taiwan and he checks that all his utensils—the pot, the waste drains in the trays—work correctly. Po went to college in the Ozarks and now he is a ceramics teacher at a college in Taiwan. He has made a lot of very different tea sets, some with jugs and some with tea pots, some have square cups and some are round. He has a kind of base or holder for them and sometimes that means that the cups are hanging on the wall.

2 comments:

  1. Simplistic pieces like this are great choices for a topic. They don't necessarily need to look like something to evoke an emotion or remind you of something. Great choice!

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  2. How interesting that he chose to do his studies so close to here and then take what he learned all the way across the world.

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