LAND TO TABLE

Yokky WONG

The work Land to Table explores: Where does the tableware come from? According to anthropologist Robert J. Robert Lowie’s observations from the early 20th century, the earliest “tableware” may have been the hands. How about the bowl? Dating back to the Neolithic period, there have been records of clay pottery bowls, the mouths are wide and the bottoms are narrow, the bottoms have foot-rings, mostly round, then constantly the bowl material, craft skill and decoration are changing. Land to table, generally thought to have the same meaning as farm to table, as a ceramist, my direct thinking is to make bowls from land and using on table. I used the commercial clay to press on the land and make bowls, which would stick some soil, combined together and developed some uniqueness. This is like outsiders who crossover with the local people of Lai Chi Wo.