Teapots (2024-) is an ongoing practice using the image of the “Utah Teapot”, a historical test model in computer graphics. Although its design is based on its tangible referent Melitta teapot, the image is much more significant than the original.

By manipulating the visual parameters on software programs, I keep creating digital copies that subtly mutate their own (digital) referents. The modification process reveals the paradoxical nature of digital images; at once fragile (form) and powerful (content). It raises a question how symbols engage with indexicality and evoke their physical referent existing elsewhere.






Teapots, 2024, digital print, 30 x 40 (cm)