Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)
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Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)

C1AdvancedApril 4, 202523 min

“It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee Sookyung Shattered porcelain is impossible to repair. As impossible as fully, and accurately, reconstructing the past. But who needs that pressure? What if, instead of tossing those shards in the dustbin of history, we acknowledged that the thing will never be what it once was? Maybe then we appreciate the beauty, and the human resilience, of what new things it could be, in the now. See the images. Music used: Billy Joel...

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almost like a volcanic rock that's been you know had a lot of things like

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It looks kind of feminine, like a feminine shape to me. Very curvy.

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Okay, so yeah, this piece is, it's got a lot of different shades of like a jade green color, bluish green, and all of the different sections that are held together with this gold glue sort of have different patterns on them so there's some that look more like text tiles some of them are more of like a solid color some of them have kind of a

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carved pattern and yeah it looks really cool. There's a lot of different kind of bulbous elements that have been kind of put together and it reminds me a lot of almost like a volcanic rock that's been you know had a lot of things like bubbling to the surface and then sort of solidifying into a hardened object.

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It looks kind of feminine, like a feminine shape to me. Very curvy. It's comprised of a bunch of spears and ovals and very abstract shapes that looked like you kind of smushed them all together and there are gold cracks running along to the whole piece. So the description or the, I don't know what to call it, caption underneath the piece talks

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