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Snapping on her rubber gloves—the job would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits—she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...
...Xian's case, his staggeringly beautiful sculptures speak for themselves. During a residency at Sydney College of the Arts in 1998, he began producing a series of porcelain busts, hand-cast and decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia...
...corner of his office, which occupies the second floor of a century-old Italianate villa just blocks from where he grew up, Feng keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine?a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure...
...corner of his office, which occupies the second floor of a century-old Italianate villa just blocks from where he grew up, Feng keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine--a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure. --By Susan Jakes/Shanghai
...refined aesthetic of Iron & Wine’s latest release, Woman King, is evident upon first glance. A perfectly square array of cheap porcelain thimbles comprises the cover art. They appear almost sacred in their arrangement and are imprinted with symbols, such as a house with a heart around it (perhaps a reference to the track “My Lady’s House”) and an image of Princess Diana with Prince Charles (perhaps calling attention to the theme of “woman king” and the general somber mood...