From afar, Stephanie Shih’s most recent ceramic work looks like something pulled from a grocery shelf: a bottle of Chinkiang vinegar, a gallon can of Kikkoman soy sauce, a 50-pound bag of rice.
Stephanie Shih works on her ceramic art in her studio, Gasworks Brooklyn, in Brooklyn, N.Y. A drawing of the kiln’s firing schedule is posted in the basement of Stephanie Shih’s studio. Why food ceramics? Shih says that for Asian communities, food plays an outsize role in family life.
It was like little friend catchers: I put them out into the world, and people shared such personal stories with me. Like, people talking about their dead mothers? Just because I made some dumplings? People just felt so connected to it.Food’s ability to unite communities and channel nostalgia has been well-documented; Shih argues that for Asian communities, it plays an outsize role in family life.
But she soon found out that hunching over the wheel made her back pain even worse. Hand-building — that is, working with clay without using the wheel — became the only feasible option. She began using underglaze to paint nature-based motifs on platters, like a fish in a color gradient that made it look iridescent—with these pieces, she rediscovered her own talent for painting.
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