Ceramic StudiesExploring Ceramics Through Craft and Digital Fabrication

Ceramics are among the oldest materials used to make artifacts, but the knowledge around clay, minerals, water, fire temperature, humidity, and finishing techniques continues to evolve.

I have explored ceramics for almost a decade, studying how their strength, hygiene, beauty, and tactile qualities can support objects, tableware, architectural materials, medical materials, and experimental craft.

Developed Glaze Inlaying Technique Study as an individual project that reinterprets traditional clay inlaying by carving clay, filling it with colored material, and applying the logic to glaze decoration.

Combined transparent glossy glaze with opaque matte glaze to create decoration with depth, contrast, and tactile variation while reducing the blurring that can happen when inlaid clay patterns are glazed.

Worked on Machined Translucency as a ceramic digital fabrication study with Alejandra Avalos Guerrero, Yungi Jung, and Joonhaeng Lee, leading the project while focusing on material experiments and clay works.

Ceramic experimentation depends on both control and uncertainty because minerals, water content, firing temperature, humidity, glaze, and timing all shape the final result.

Digital fabrication can extend ceramic craft when it works with the material's behavior rather than treating clay as a neutral industrial input.