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Weichen Hung is a ceramicist based in Yingge, Taiwan — the historic home of peach porcelain. Working alone in a studio, he shapes each piece by hand, carrying forward a tradition that values silence over spectacle.

Shaped by hand, slowly since 2014.

Weichen Hung shaping porcelain by hand in his studio

Hello. My name is Weichen Hung, and I make porcelain in Yingge, which has been the center of Taiwan's peach porcelain industry since the Japanese colonial period. I'm glad you've found your way here. I didn't study ceramics formally. Most of what I know comes from years of working alone - making things, taking them apart, and trying again. This process is still the way I work today, the way I think I work today.

I work without molds or machinery. Each piece is hand-built, shaped through repeated contact with the clay until the form settles into something that feels honest. I don't rush that. Some pieces take much longer than expected, and some never get finished at all. I've made peace with that.

My work is almost entirely functional — bowls, cups, jars. Things meant to be held and used, not set aside. I believe an object earns its place through use, not appearance. If a piece sits untouched on a shelf, I'm not sure it's doing its job.

I think a lot about why certain forms have lasted for centuries. Not to copy them, but to understand what they got right — and whether that still matters now. Tradition, to me, is not something to preserve behind glass. It's a conversation worth continuing.

I don't make many pieces. I'd rather make fewer things well than many things quickly. Thank you for taking the time to look.

你好。我是洪緯禎,我在鶯歌裡製作瓷器,這裡自日治時期以來一直是台灣桃瓷的中心。我很高興你在這裡找到了自己的路。我沒有正式學習陶藝。我所知道的大部分都來自多年的獨自摸索 - 製作東西,拆開它們,然後再次嘗試。這個過程仍然是我當今的工作方式,我也認同的工作方式。

我的工作沒有模具或機械。每件作品都是手工製作的,通過與粘土的反復接觸而成型,直到形狀穩定下來,成為感覺踏實的東西。我不著急...有些作品比預期要花更長的時間,有些作品根本無法完成。我已經接受了這一點。

我的作品幾乎完全是功能性的——碗、杯子、罐子。這些東西是拿來使用的,而不是放在一邊。我相信一件物品透過使用而不是外觀來贏得它的地位。如果一件物品原封不動地放在架子上,我不確定它是否在發揮作用。

我思考了很多關於為什麼某些形式能夠持續幾個世紀的問題。不是為了複製它們,而是為了理解它們的正確之處——以及現在是否仍然重要。對我來說,傳統並不是要在玻璃後面保存的東西。這是一個值得繼續的對話。

我做的東西不多。我寧願把更少的東西做好,也不願把很多東西做得很快。謝謝你花時間來看。

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Handmade pieces for the everyday table.

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