黑料不打烊

The ceramic artist鈥檚 ode to nature expands from her typical single theme series, branching off to include a plethora of objects found on the forest floor. Exploring new colors, glazes, forms, and techniques, she playfully renders the myriad details already present in nature: banded rocks, coiled shells, layered nests, and hollow exoskeletons. Deviating from faithful representation, the artist sculpts abstracted shapes and conjures fantastical colors, leaving room for curiosity and imagination. 

Fallen objects glimmer underfoot, as Winnie Go makes her way along her regular forest hike. Looking down, she often observes, 鈥淣ature is the most beautiful of all art.鈥� In her latest solo exhibition, the ceramicist demonstrates her ode to nature. While in past exhibits she would form multiples of a single subject, like apples of flowers, here she expands to a much wider variety.  Captivated by the details of natural objects scattered around the forest floor, unseen by most humans, Winnie made poetic representations of rocks, nuts, seed pods, fruits, wildflowers, acorns, river shells, bones, nests, and butterfly wings. 

Working between two studios, in the United States and in Singapore, Winnie attempts to depict the details of these curious objects, some more true to reality, while others more evidently stylized. She painted glossy glazes to mimic shiny, veined river stones, drew with pencil and crayon to recreate the matte, earthy lines on banded rock, and left some pieces completely unglazed, showing the raw, original color of the clay. Taking from her training as a chef, she applied a glaze pattern technique she learned for icing napoleon pastries. The tiny paintings on these objects mirror natural designs already present on the surfaces of rocks and shells. 鈥淚f you look at the rocks of the Grand Canyon, they are ribbed in different colors. I try to echo the effects that are made through time by rain, or by erosion from being underwater.鈥�