Men No Tears, 2020

Ceramic

Sculptural vases

3 pieces

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The composition serves as a dialogue about gender rule in society. If a man cry will be considered womanish but isn’t that having emotions and tears is normal for every living human? The wall is here hiding their tears, and the disposable cup is here for dumping the tears before anyone sees it. But the flowers will show whether the person is still alive. Death man, no tears, living person do cry.

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Nothing is being glued in this piece, you can move anyone object, reconstruct the composition whatever you want. The status of being control by no rules, but it is still serving individual’s desire, and still in order. Thinking from functioning object in the freeway, accidentally broken cup for soil and plant, and small tube for flower, and add on ceramic objects for different composition as decoration. 

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Using the failed banana and failed mold recreate a minimal sculptural vase.

My initial thinking is about everyone or man can cry at the funeral, or cry at their own funeral. All gender rules, society expectations, our own rules, and our own expectations will be all gone until we died. Then when we may realize life is short, and start to think about “I really should take a risk, break a rule, do whatever I want, but why didn’t I do that?”

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