Since the first half of 2021, I have built my own formative method of ceramic sculpture called "Terracotta Colorata" and have been using it for work just like my visual language. Terracotta Colorata means 'Colored Terracotta’ in Italian. I mostly sculpt a form of a human body with pure white porcelain and then inlay white porcelain mixed with various amounts of black pigment on the surface irregularities to create a dreamy skin tone.

This coloring effect appears in a very different outcome depending on firing temperature. A sculpture fired at around 1200 degrees Celsius gets a smooth and solid surface through glass nitriding and polishing. The contrast between the pale white porcelain background and the vivid inlaid part clearly appears. On the other hand, the coloring of a sculpture fired around 950 degrees Celsius looks hazy. However when water is sprayed, due to numerous myriad holes in the surface of the object, the material temporarily holds the water and then the color of the pigment appears clearer. Terracotta Colorata, fired and completed in both ways, creates a hazy, shaggy, and somewhat uncomfortable atmosphere, while having a fixedly subdued heavy presence.