still life, perceived as landscape

2024– ongoing

artistic research


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├─ Still Life, yet perceived as landscapes (studies) I–III
│ (drawing studies, Slade School of Fine Art, 2024)
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├─ Material Experiments: Clay, Glaze, Ash (2025– )
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├─ Still Life, Perceived as Landscape
│                                                       — Before They Appear I–II (2026–)
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├─ Shells of an Unmade Realm (2026– )
│      • Shells of an Unmade Realm I–III
│ • Shells of an Unmade Realm
│                                                     — Proto-Landforms (set of 8)
│

Beginning from a still life,
shifting into a landscape,
dissolving borders between artefacts
and surroundings,

attuning slowly —


again,
and again.

“Do you know how love should be begun?”  — Carson McCullers



This ongoing artistic research investigates how acts of perception transform still life into landscape.

Beginning with drawing studies developed during an experimental session at Slade School of Fine Art in 2024, the project has gradually expanded into material explorations with clay, glaze, ash, and fire. Through fragments, surfaces, and small terrains, including layered sediments and ash washes, the work traces how objects, materials, and environments dissolve into one another. Each piece functions both as an individual observation and as part of a larger, evolving landscape.

The practice traces a learning process of perceiving the world—like in McCullers’ 𝘈 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦. 𝘈 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬. 𝘈 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥.—where perception itself becomes a form of love.

Still Life, Perceived as Landscape — Before They Appear I–II

2026

stoneware (USA), Shino slip (Japan), rice straw ash wash (Taiwan)
147 × 110 × 20 mm

stoneware (USA), Shino slip (Japan), white pine needle ash wash (Taiwan)
145 × 110 × 23 mm