Tanchi
“Each work has its own mission, it will speak one day.”
“She said that flowers and vessel can speak the same language, echoing one another.”
Tanchi recalls how the florist influenced her career by one single detail.
Before vessels, Tanchi was known for her large-scale sculptures. The transition began when a florist approached her for collaboration
“A vessel doesn’t have to stand behind the flowers.
They are the creation themselves.”
The decision moving from large sculptures to medium-sized ceramic pieces was not simply a technical change. It also reflected the realities of space, living, and the audience.
“The size of my previous sculptures distances them.”
Many visitors to her earlier exhibitions admired her sculptures, but also admitted that placing one in their home was relatively unimaginable.
The feedback stayed with her.
It often begins with daily observation.
“It can be very random, sometimes a shape just catches my eye,
soon I start imagining it as one of my pieces.”
Inspiration, for her, is less about concepts than about attention, but noticing the unnoticed.
Her work is always clean and simple, yet sophisticated.
“Simple shapes can stir layered impressions in different people.”
She aims for forms that are quietly honest, reflecting the audience.
This clarity makes her work distinct, but also less immediately accessible.
“I know my pieces aren’t the kind that people instantly like,
they need time and patience.”
“I gave myself a deadline, it’s hard,
some days are exhausting."
There is a trace of humor in her words, but also honesty about the difficulty of sustaining an artistic life.
“Each era has its own images,
falling out of fashion doesn’t kill the values.”
Tanchi’s vessels are born from compromise, but not defeat.
If you listen closely.
"Holding a cup to the ear,
you can hear the waves."
Her practice, like her forms, resists extremes.
It neither rejects practicality nor surrenders to it.
In that balance lies her strength, an artist who listens carefully to both materials and herself, finding serenity in movement, and meaning in restraint.
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