Yeesookyung: Piecing It Together
By John Jervis
YEESOOKYUNG,
Combining discarded shards of porcelain with gold leaf, Korean artist Yeesookyung creates new shapes, often softly curved and anthropomorphic, occasionally jagged and alien. This ceramic practice, which started with the “Translated Vases” series in 2006, has proved therapeutic for the artist, and the resulting works are profoundly, undeniably beautiful.
