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Mother Earth 16 is a low, wide hand-thrown onggi vessel standing 20 cm high and 33 cm across. The form is compressed and grounded — belly broad, shoulder rounded, neck small and dark. It is not a vessel that rises; it spreads, settles, holds its ground.
What distinguishes this piece within the Mother Earth series is the incised decoration: arching lines drawn directly into the raw clay surface before firing, their pale trace visible against the dark body. The motif is spare — two or three arcs, loosely gestural, reminiscent of spring grass emerging from soil or ripples crossing water. In onggi making, surface decoration of this kind is rare. Here it appears not as ornament but as notation: a mark of season, lightly pressed into earth.
The surface itself is rough and matte, the dark body showing the natural variation of ash firing — warmer and browner where the flame has lingered, cooler and denser elsewhere. Nothing is applied for effect.
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Artist: Chung Youngrak 정영락
Title: Mother Earth 16
Series: Mother Earth (대지)
Material: Onggi clay (earthenware)
Technique: Hand throwing, natural ash firing, incised decoration
Dimensions: 32.0 × 33.0 × 20.0 cm
Year: 2025
Condition: New
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About the artist
CHUNG YOUNGRAK 정영락
"The onggi pottery that captivated me in my youth has remained the central theme of my life — something I have persistently devoted myself to through the countless repetitions of the changing four seasons."
