Masterclass | Kang-hyo Lee | Making Moon Jars TRAILER

We’ve just added a new 25 minute film to We Love Clay. Perhaps the most beguiling of his many beautiful forms are Kang-hyo Lee’s moon jars, a type of pottery that inhabits a special place in the history of Korean ceramics. Watch this master potter make and decorate moon jars. Visit weloveclay.com to subscribe and watch the full film.
Kang-hyo Lee’s moon jars are not just beautiful ceramic objects: they are spiritual reflections of the natural world, alternately calm and contemplative, dynamic and dramatic.
Born in Seoul in 1961, Kang-hyo Lee is widely regarded as one of the finest Korean potters working today. His work is rooted in the major Korean ceramic traditions of Onggi pottery - voluminous storage jars originally designed for holding fermented food - and Punch’ong decoration, where white slip is layered and brushed over dark clay.
In his moon jars, however, the decorative process is slowed to a serenely meditative pace. Scratched and splattered slip-marks echo dappled moonlight between woodland trees; blushes of peach and cream-white reflect the luminescence of a full-moon in the early evening sky.
Both quiet and vital, powerful and with presence, Lee’s moon jars are the intimate results of his search for a beautiful life.
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