Translated Vase_2015 TVGW 3

This teardrop-shaped piece composed of celadon-and-white porcelain shards belongs to Yeesookyung’s Translated Vase series, which revisits traditional Korean ceramic practices through a contemporary lens. In Korea, potters routinely destroy works that do not meet their high standards. Using broken or repaired ceramics is also taboo, and keeping such pieces in a kitchen is considered bad luck. By deliberately choosing shards of porcelain that have been abandoned by other artists, Yeesookyung questions and challenges conventions and celebrates the beauty of imperfection as well as the idea of second chances.