I started making ceramic boxes as soon as I learned the slab hand-building technique.  Since I was a child, I have always been charmed by anything that is shaped like a box.  It didn’t matter what material it was made of. At one point, I was collecting boxes from all over the world.  It was only natural that I started to make them in clay.  In the beginning, I made simple square boxes with my usual puzzle cut lids.  Then I raku fired them by letting the fire and smoke do their magic. Because of my current limited accessibility to raku, I started to focus on each piece with a more refined shape and decoration using multiple techniques such as inlaying or sgraffito with freehand carving and painted terra-sigillata using designed decals.  

My main goal with these boxes is to explore varying relationships between East and West.  I constantly try to mix and match the fragments, such as old Korean motifs, repeated patterns from the walls of the palaces in Seoul, or trims from the roof tiles of old Buddhist temples then mixing them with modern lines and simple patterns of the west.

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