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Uphill, 2022, Clay, cremation soil, iron oxide, 10.6”x10.2”
YOUNG TAE RA
Young Tae Ra creates pottery using a pottery wheel. For the artist, the pottery represents the
universe, and the interior of the pottery represents his heart. The surface of the pottery expresses
the artist’s hope, prayers, and the future. Two circle holes on the surface of the pottery represent
a dragon’s eyes, at the moment that the dragon appears in his imagination. The artist repeatedly
paints the surface of the pottery with white clay, after wheel-throwing the mixed clay (white clay and
celadon clay). After applying a base coat on the porcelain, he draws the figures with an iron oxide
brush on the pottery with humorous, lively, and powerful brushstrokes. Then he completes his work
by firing it at 1,250 degrees in a kiln.
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