New York
Glazed ceramic
9″ wide x 2″ high

Young Mi Kim worked and taught for years from her studio in Bearsville, and at the Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock NY. She now resides in South Korea, the country of her birth. Each of her ceramic pieces is one-of-a-kind and slowly, meticulously hand built. She layers strands of clay in a coil, carefully working upward as she discovers the shape. She writes, “In essence, each layer marks time and space. When I hand build my pots, it is a form of meditation. It is my attempt to live in grace: like an open vessel, empty and yet full.” Young Mi is also a gardener, and her time in nature clearly influences her work. Her biomorphic sculptures often resemble flowers, seed pods, fungi and other organic forms.

These plates resemble flora in the way the clay comes together at the border to form overlapping petals. We imagine them cradling persimmons, on a rustic pine table.