- CollegeCentral Saint Martins
- CourseBA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design
- Graduation year2025
Heritage is ubiquitous. In an era dominated by instant digital communication and rapid cultural shifts, many forms of heritage are quietly fading. This project proposes conserving heritage as a mentality—a way of seeing and knowing. Through ceramic glaze painting, I dematerialize heritage using visual ambiguity, creating space for personal interpretation. This project encourages viewers to turn inward, reflect on their own fading legacies, and understand heritage as a mindset—one that allows us to carry forward our culture, identity, and the things we value, even as forms change.
Final work
These are ceramic plates glazed with abstracted, blurry forms based on photographs of tangible heritage objects shared with me by others. By incorporating personal legacies into the work, I invite viewers to project their own emotions and memories onto the imagery. The glaze introduces a second layer of visual ambiguity—flowing unpredictably during high-temperature firing and softening the edges of the patterns. This blurriness reflects the fading quality of memory and the uncertain status of heritage in a fast-changing world, shifting the focus from specific references to open interpretation.
These works feature abstract circular glaze forms, free from photographic references. Within each fixed circle, the glaze is allowed to flow and transform, symbolising intangible heritage in motion—shaped by memory, emotion, and perception. Rather than preserving heritage in material form, these pieces evoke it as a mental and emotional state, aligning the idea of heritage as a way of knowing. The tension between control and unpredictability reflects how heritage is felt, interpreted, and continuously redefined.
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