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Mother Earth 9 is a hand-thrown onggi vessel of near-spherical form, 28.5 cm high and 36 cm in diameter. Where other pieces in the Mother Earth series press down and spread wide, this one rises — rounder, fuller, its shoulder curving up to a small dark oval opening set slightly off-centre. The asymmetry is not a defect. It is evidence of the hand.
The surface carries no combing, no deliberate incision. What remains is the unmediated record of fire: warm brown deepening to amber where the flame has touched directly, cooler and darker where it has not. The clay breathes through the glaze — pitted, alive, unapologetically itself. Onggi at this scale and in this register asks nothing more of the maker, and nothing more of the viewer.
Chung Youngrak has devoted her practice to onggi since her studies at Ewha Womans University and Myongji University, and was certified as an Onggijang trainee under Korea's National Intangible Cultural Heritage programme in 2019. This vessel belongs to that lineage — quietly, entirely.
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Artist: Chung Youngrak 정영락
Title: Mother Earth 9
Series: Mother Earth (대지)
Material: Onggi clay (earthenware)
Technique: Hand throwing, natural ash firing
Dimensions: H 28.5 × Ø 36.0 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."
