Porcelain, Color and Lifestyle
This is a small collection of my porcelain products. The fine and interesting forms are combined with colors and the useful and sensible quality of porcelain, to create a joyful and enjoyable environment at home, which includes cups, saucers, decoration objects, jars, and candle holders, all of hand made porcelain.
There are variate ideas of the product. Besides the practical functions, I really want to deliver a enjoyable using experience for people between porcelain product. At the same time, they all have different creativities shine through. The small egg shape cups are round on the bottom, so you can turn it during drinking. The saucers are good for using sauce and you can also build them up differently depends on your mood. These two show the fineness and a exquisite crafts work of porcelain and delicately decorate the room.
The idea of the porcelain pumpkin came from the experience when I live in Germany. Every autumn in the markt are selling some small, colorful pumpkins with strange shapes to decorate the room or the garden. And everywhere on the floor lies the pines or nuts from the trees. I love the beautiful nature in autumn so much that I decide to make the season last forever. There were a story about "Midas Touch”, that the king Midas turned everything he touched into gold. And I have tried to turn everything into the white gold - porcelain. Besides the object I also attempted to made them useful, where I put the pumpkin form into a creative functional gift, a jar.
The cups and candle holder are decorated with glaze. It’s called rice grain porcelain, which is a traditional technic in Jing De Zhen, China. The hole on the porcelain are filled with glaze after the first firing. It made the hole transparent but full. It brings a soft light effect and even dramatic in the shadow, with a extreme contrast between light and dark. I transformed the technic with a modern and geometric muster on the porcelain. Not only for tableware, but also with light and candle, where you can fully realized the effect of the shine from inside.
Overall, porcelain is now not a “old” material. I put them into a modern mould and gave them delightful color to match the needs of the fashionable style at home. The barbie pink and baby blue on the porcelain bring people a lot of fun and makes the objects a little bit unrealistic and with a cute flavor, like cartoon in candy land.
The porcelain is made with hand craft from the beginning to the end. First is to create the plaster mould and then casting with porcelain. The hardest mould is the pumpkin due to its organic and irregular shape. And to make a jar, there is always more to think about, like how to match the body and cap and how big is the container. Casting is kind of relaxing, but with more color there should be more time to cast. Making holes on the porcelain is very important. You have to wait to the right time to dig the hole on porcelain, or it will either break or deform.
After the first firing (more than 900℃) the porcelain needs a long time polish and glaze with really patient and kindness. The second firing reaches to 1300℃ and crystallized the gorgeous porcelain.
Both the color combinations and the shapes made people really delightful. One side are because the colors, that are so bright and lovely. On the other hand, the love of objects comes from our daily life, from the observation of the nature and the emotional bonding during the using. I think that’s way we call a porcelain or glass object a applied art. Because the using process is not only about if it is practical or not. The beauty and style of it also play a great role in it. Porcelain is for me also like a emotional media, rather than a cold industrial product, porcelain brings sensitivity, fineness and care to its user. And that’s way is porcelain so lovable.
