Sooin Lee
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Where clay remembers touch, softness, and playful language.
Sooin Lee is a ceramic artist who transforms the hand-building process into a language of warmth, softness, and lived emotion. Her works often reference familiar objects—such as hats or stitched vases—yet reinterpret them through clay to create forms that feel at once comforting and subtly unfamiliar.
By translating the delicacy and coziness of textiles into solid ceramic surfaces, Lee blurs the boundary between softness and rigidity. Visible hand impressions, stitched words, and playful phrases such as “flower in” become gentle reminders of the maker’s presence and humor. These tactile marks invite viewers not only to look but to experience the work through touch, gesture, and imagination.
Lee’s objects carry a light, inviting energy. When placed in everyday spaces, they become quiet companions—evoking intimacy, curiosity, and a renewed sense of presence. Her practice transforms simple forms into emotive sculptures, revealing how clay can hold traces of touch, language, and personality.
Through this meeting of material, memory, and playfulness, Sooin Lee offers ceramics as intimate objects that brighten life’s daily moments with warmth and freshness.
Main activity genre
Ceramics & Pottery
Category
Craft
ARTWORKS
This hat-shaped objet is created using hand-building techniques.
By translating the warmth and delicacy of textiles into clay, the artist seeks to convey a sense of comfort and familiarity even within the material’s inherent solidity.
When placed in an everyday space, the piece is intended to evoke emotions that feel both familiar and slightly unfamiliar—offering a gentle yet refreshing experience.
Production Year: 2025
Production Technique: Hand-building
This vase is hand-built and marked with visible hand impressions.
On the surface, the word “vase” is stitched into the clay, while the back playfully features the phrase “flower in.”
Although grammatically incomplete, “flower in” is not only an instruction to place flowers inside but also a gentle invitation to breathe life into the object itself.
The stitched words and arrangement of letters create a delightful meeting point between form and language, offering a tactile experience that can be appreciated with both the eyes and the fingertips.
Beyond serving as a vessel for flowers, this vase aims to be an object that carries warmth, playfulness, and a sense of liveliness—an intimate presence shaped by the artist’s hand.
Production Year: 2025
Production Technique: Hand-building
