#563 Talchum (The Mask Dance) | Jooyun Lim
Clay
Height: 10cm. Width: 15cm. Depth: 7cm.
This work uses slip casting to create plates and bowls using moulds, with a Korean traditional dance called Tal-chum (mask dance) as a pattern. There are many different types and colours of Tal to represent different themes. I have given texture by carving patterns and then inlaying colour on the surface to show the five traditional colours of Korean patterns: red, yellow, blue, black and white.
Being human, we want to know what our limits are. Like we invented the airplane to reach the sky, things are developing to be ‘more' convenient and fancy life to the extreme, I wonder what we are missing now. I wonder if ‘higher, faster, bigger' is really the best way for us all. I can’t experience the beauty of slowness and simplicity in the busy life of the city where I was born and raised. I want to keep in my mind that slowness and simplicity are okay. When I make my pots, I hope that in being useful, even if it's not that fancy or brilliant, it can still be beautiful to someone, and by 'use' the pot can be meaningful without being complex and overdone. I hope it can be seen that the imperfections of the pots add to their uniqueness and handmade originality.
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