Artist and studio potter Johnson Tsang created A Painful Pot, in December last year. Tsang, a Hong Kong sculptor, said he wanted to make a thrown porcelain vessel that describes how he feels about his country. That’s all the description Tsang gives before he walks us through his process of shaping the pot and the dragon which adorns it.
“Adorns” is too soft of a word, though. The dragon, a frequent feature in his works, is digging into the body of the pot with its claws. It constricts the vessel like a serpent suffocating its prey. The pot bulges and bends between the dragon’s coils.
Tsang specializes in ceramics, stainless steel sculptures and public artworks. The artist said he mostly uses realist sculptural techniques which are accompanied by his surrealist imagination. Tsang has been exhibiting since 1993 in places such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Spain and Switzerland.
Above image: Johnson Tsang, A Painful Pot, 2013, porcelain. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
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Process photographs of Johnson Tsang’s A Painful Pot. Photographs courtesy of the artist.
Awesome work! No more explanation is needed because I think a lot of people can relate.
Your work is absolutely amazing!! Where would I go to inquire to purchase a work?