Meeting with Sarah & Chinn

For the individual meeting, I met with Sarah. I was asking many questions to clarify about the paper. I was given many artists and materials to look into. Moreover, the part I found particularly helpful was when Sarah asked me critical questions about my work, such as "Why ceramics?" All of Sarah's questions got me thinking about why I am making what I am making.
With my paper, I started researching the history of ceramics. I realized the importance of ceramics being one of the few medium that survived through centuries, and it was one of the materials coming from Asia. Without giving a second thought, again I found the connection between my work and where I came from. It was helpful to have this direction and I started looking into artists who dealt with similar concepts.
At the same time, in my independent study with Chinn, she was also pointing out that most of the work I created in the past had something to do with being delicate, beautiful and precious. She wanted me to go above and beyond and try to mess things up and see what happened. With this said, I started a fun and mindless experimenting process with ink and collage. After the exploration, I was excited to see the unintentional shapes the ink and water created. However, this is just a step one. I am going to keep exploring with the same ones and see how far I can go with it. The plan is to print again and mess around again.
From my meeting with Sarah and Chinn, we also came up with the statement I should focus on. Because of my experience of growing up in a family of gemologists, I was raised in an environment that constantly emphasized the value of the precious. For me, however, the definition of something precious entails different values. In my work, now, I tried to recreate varied objects or images that reminded me of the beauty of my personal history. Moreover, looking back to the images I created, I also realized my unconscious obsessive attraction to patterns and colors.