Yoon
"I didn't plan to become a potter."
At the time, I was working in an office as a landscape architect, drawing parks, streets, and public spaces. One day, almost out of boredom, I signed up for a pottery class.
I wasn't looking for a new path; I just wanted something to interrupt the stillness of my routine.
Clay, unexpectedly, did more than that. It lit something back on.
My pottery journey has grown across places and cultures.
is where I learned and observed pottery techniques shaped by centuries of tradition, material knowledge, and an intimate relationship with fire.
Deeply influenced my approach through its emphasis on restraint, balance, and sensitivity to form, shaping both process and spirit.
Offered the space to experiment. Ehere my practice became more personal, fluid, and open to contemporary reinterpretation.
Where Landscape
Meets Clay
Coming from a background in landscape architecture, I approach clay the way I once approached land: attentive to texture, proportion, and rhythm.
I draw directly onto my pieces: sketch-like lines inspired by plants, terrain, weather, and natural patterns. Each surface becomes both a vessel and a small landscape.
Form and drawing are inseparable in my process; the object holds the mark, and the mark reveals how it was made.
Pottery didn't just give me a new skill. It gave me a slower way of seeing, a tactile language, and a practice that feels alive in my hands.