In recent years I have been producing a few different bodies of work. Each group has a different theme while the concepts are related to each other. I keep the focusing point on the evolution of industry. The work started from Industrial Organs, the first group of work about industry and engineering, and then the New Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, Mars colonization, and Rebirth. The last one I am still working on will be exhibited at CCBC gallery .

To move on from the last exhibition, Mars Colonization, Rebirth is about a group of creatures and plants that settle down on another planet and start a new life there. For the purpose of adapting into the harsh environment, all creatures and plants have been equipped very well in themselves. This is the interesting part in the working process which also will be the focus in the exhibition. They are all different: some creatures have been hybridized with AI technology and others are covered with strange outfits.

AI technology can be seen everywhere in our daily life. The common existence of moving gears directed me into this new body of work. I made the creatures transformed and with industrial parts. Some of them have mixed media attached to copy the high-tech model. I use underglaze hand painted on the AI creatures or I make strange weapons being held in the creatures’ hands. This is the way I make the identity different for each piece. The hand painted patterns on the surface are symbols that carry different meanings. For example, the grasshopper with a pattern of green stripes imitates the grass from where they originally come.

The pieces combine different pottery skills: hand building, mold casting and pinch. Though I have made living creatures, the images are not ones we recognize from our memory. I always leave some clues on the pieces for the viewer to question in their imaginations, creating an immediate interesting moment when the audience first encounters the pieces.

The theme of “Rebirth” raises the question of what is the meaning of rebirth? Is the creature an old one returning or a new one arising?