Worship of Sleep

Medium: Clay, Self-made Experimental Glazes, Iron/Copper Stain

Selected for Exhibition in Sleep Show 2014, Glass and Ceramic Invitational 2015

   

    This ceramic work is a small-scale sculptural reliquary for the concept of “sleep”. It combines traditional vase form with architectural structure, to visualize the relationship of the unconscious inner mindset such as in a deep sleep with the outer living environment.  Inspired by Maya Lin’s Eclipsed Time, a public sculpture tells time at Penn Station, this two-sided ceramic sculpture enlarge the concept of reliquary to an interactive sculpture.  By removing and manipulating half-ellipse shapes on two side of the vase’s wall, the cut out echoes each other to form a floating space inside of the vase. It interacts with the viewer via the different perspectives of viewing, to connect artist’s subjectively and physiologically precious “sleep” to an awareness of unstable environment. By creating this aerial environment, the sculpture connects back our physical living space to an emotional and unconscious state. As a reliquary, the sculpture challenges its form and function, to examine the echoing of individual’s psychological state with changing and unchanging environments.