“Still Life – TORN“, was selected to be one of 15 finalists for John Fries Memorial Award 2011.

My work demands tight control of the wet clay on the spinning wheel.  This time while shaping the vase to be, I felt a need to tear it while spinning, so the result will be individual and raw.

A torn vessel.

An evidence of one violent heartbeat in a flat time line.

Unresolved.

Unglazed.

Silent.

The monotonic sound of the wheel halts.

And then again.

Only when all the vessels were put together, through a process of negotiating shape, character and space, I could hear my voice, a far cry.

This is my first work soon after giving birth for the first time.

An experience that has left me torn and fragile.

By myself, in the studio, I could only surrender the past and reform.

Text by Keiko Matsui

Exhibition Place: Viscopy
Address: 1 Blackfriars Street, Chippendale  NSW  2008
Date: 10 August to 30 September
Time: 1 to 5pm Wed to Fri.
Contact: (02) 9310 2018