Let The Silence Speak Again

Let The Silence Speak Again is an on-going exploration of the mineral kingdom through ceramics.

For the past decade, the central motif of my work and research has been dowsing, aka water witching or water divination. It's a folk practice consists of using a forked stick, metal rods or a pendulum to locate underground water, minerals, lost objects, buried sites, or forgotten knowledge. My engagement with dowsing has naturally led me to earth-based materials like metal, glass, and clay.

My initiation to ceramics took place during a residency at the Visual Arts Centre (Montreal) in the summer of 2025, where I worked with terracotta and recycled clay, creating bas-reliefs embedded with protection sigils—symbols that merge esoteric traditions, personal experiences and cultural memory. I wish to further explore ceramics’ historical, spiritual, and elemental significance, focusing on low-temperature firing and wild clay bodies, while emphasizing sustainability and accessibility. Earthenware is one the most common used forms of pottery throughout history, intimately connected to folk art.

This series is inspired by Koji pottery (交趾陶) found in Taiwanese Taoist temples, a form of traditional ceramic art embodying excessively ornamented deity figures, fish, animals, flowers, fruits, mosaics, etc. Through casting, sculpting and hand-building, this low-fired, polychromatic pottery is a folk symbol, intimately woven into domestic routines, social functions, and faith expressions of daily life.