I began my FMP (final
major project) by looking at the work of Johnson Tsang. I was fascinated by his
exhibition ‘Living Clay’ and immediately wanted to have a go. It reminded me of
the way water reacts when it hits an object or when an object is thrown in to
water. He can make the figure or water look as if it is moving even though it
is a solid object.
Johnson Tsang has combined the traditional ceramic object
such as, a bowl that is a solid object and shows no movement, when it is
dropped it doesn’t bend or mold to a new shape, it would simply break it to
many different pieces, with a human body which in fact is flexible and shows
movement in anything it does.
He is well known for the
way he portrays life through his pieces. He shows the way that the body reacts with
another object/ substance. We can see the reaction of a liquid form hitting the
body or a body dive out of or through a ceramic bowl and the bowl just moves
away as if it were water. His work is truly amazing to look at, the way the
figures effortlessly dive through the solid ceramic pieces. When he combines
the human form with traditional ceramic bowls is so well done that it actually
looks as if the face was pressing its way through the clay. He puts the two
words, Life and Clay together to create a living piece, this is truly
amazing.
