The Korean word dojagi combines the words for porcelain (jagi) and earthenware (dogi). Porcelain is baked at a temperature of at least 1,300 degrees Celsius, which makes it very durable and white. Earthenware, which is baked at a lower temperature, is not as white in color or durable as porcelain. The higher level of difficulty involved gives Korean porcelain a unique trait: permeability. Thin layers of opaque clay, by being baked in a scorching fire, are transformed into a durable substance that can filter light.

It is this ability to filter different amounts of light depending on the thickness that accounts for the beauty we ascribe to traditional Korean porcelain.

Jiana Kim’s Inside series is comprised of canvases on which the artist has created three-dimensional images by sticking onto them pieces of extremely thin, high temperature-baked clay. Like traditional porcelainware, when light hits the surface of Kim’s artworks, some of it bounces off the surface of the shards, while the rest passes through them in varying amounts depending on their thickness.

The artwork’s appearance changes constantly depending on the light’s color, intensity, and direction.

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