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Artwork Description

SeungHee Lee’s working style is as follows: Using traditional ceramic techniques, he makes a square plate of white clay, to which he applies soil, water, and then dries. This process he repeats more than 100 times over the next three months. Through this technique Lee creates a thick layer of about 8mm on the clay plate. Next, scraping it to a thickness of merely a few particles, Lee forms the clay to create a three-dimensional effect through its curved surface, a process through which he reveals the boundary between the background and the image. After painting the image of the ceramic vessel on this clay tile with a pigment, he then applies a glaze over the image to reproduce the form of a classical ceramic vessel pictorially, while the rest of the tile he leaves unglazed to preserve the texture of the clay base. Therefore, only the pottery part naturally stands out, creating a contrast between the untreated background and the center image. Although it is impossible to materially separate the unglazed background from the central representation of pottery, the difference in texture is clear. If you look closely, the pottery image and background in the work are all flat, but from a distance, it looks like three-dimensional ceramic vessel floating in a white space.