2005

2005

[summary]

Among the three themes regarding the Project for Accomplishment that are:

1.     The Ethnical Culture of Champa

2.     The Ethnical Culture of The Highland

3.     The Modern Ceramics

I chose the third one and decided to explore the current ‘Natural Environment’ as a resource for my creation. Particularly, pollution in the natural environment is a seriously urgent issue around the world. Through daily broadcasting, various news are being circulated regarding the ruination on Nature that leads to deluge, drought, desertification, and even our water resource is being harmed. There is an enduring threat regarding massive death of watery creatures due to oil tanker collision and spill, or the alarming fact of toxic industrial waste (chemicals) which is being dumped directly into rivers and seas. A scene of the water surface whitened by dead fishes is affrighting me. The more we are exploiting and contaminating our water resource uncontrollably, the more we are destroying the balance of our own living condition. Is there human insentience against our own ecology? This obsession is reflected by a fish shape with half of its body was deformed to be seen deep down to its bone, and it is trying to leave its own living place, the water.

Besides the main work, the request of sub-work functioning as a gift prompted me to make a teapot set decorated by the Sun-motif. The important role of the Sun that is giving energy to our livings is obvious. In Cretaceous Period, an asteroid struck the Earth with great force. Its impact sent a large cloud of hot rock and dust into the atmosphere blocking part of the Sun’s ray for years. With less sunlight, plants and animals would have died according to geologists. In literature, on the other hand:

Every time fresh sunlight is beaming beside the window rattan

Sorrowing over the tumultuous cock-crowing at noon

…

 (Fresh Sunlight, by Vietnamese poet Luu Trong Lu).

But above all, the kid’s paintings drawn with lovely bright and naive colors are those inspired me to create The Little Sun teapot set. Those amusing images of the Sun  are appropriate for fulfilling the required gift function of the sub-work.

Through the lamp Carp Streamer In A Polluted Environment (2005) and the teapot set The Little Sun (2005), I expect to be able to reflect my sentience regarding our current ecological condition.