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Danyang Song
Finding The Balance
From dust to dust.
Soil nourishes life.
Every inch of soil contains the memory that once existed here. Animism.
From art to nothingness.
What is its value?
What is the memory it carries?
The harmony between the internal and external. Alternation of old and new.
Where is the balance?
Translating different invisible emotions, feelings and symbiotic relationships. Explore the Traditional Chinese Humanistic Philosophy of "Tian Ren He Yi" (The Unity of Man and Heaven/ Nature).
The interwoven relationship between human, nature and machine is complicated yet beautiful. I explore how emotion, feeling, language and communication all play an important part of how our bodies react, to visualize this invisible feeling. I attempt to visualize the mystery of the human body and society through various ceramic and glass techniques, such as hand-building, blowing and ceramic 3D printing. Using different methods of combining and stressing the material, capturing that resistance and embracing the outcome through a series of making and remaking of a specific object. I also explore the symbiotic relationship between human, nature and technology through combining 3D printing technique and hand building technique together.
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Finding the balance-1
Glazed Stoneware, Underglaze
20*15*60cm
2023
The interwoven relationship between human, nature and machine is complicated yet beautiful. Also the relationship between humans, nature, and technology is complex and interdependent. I explored the symbiotic relationship between nature, human and technology through combining old and new ceramic making techniques.
From my perspective, achieving a balance between traditional craft techniques and new technology techniques to create innovative and hybrid forms of ceramic art is an important challenge for contemporary ceramic artists
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Finding the balance-2
Glazed Stoneware, Underglaze
20*15*60cm
2023
The interwoven relationship between human, nature and machine is complicated yet beautiful. Also the relationship between humans, nature, and technology is complex and interdependent. I explored the symbiotic relationship between nature, human and technology through combining old and new ceramic making techniques.
From my perspective, achieving a balance between traditional craft techniques and new technology techniques to create innovative and hybrid forms of ceramic art is an important challenge for contemporary ceramic artists.
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Finding the balance-3
Porcelain
20*15*60cm
2023
The interwoven relationship between human, nature and machine is complicated yet beautiful. Also the relationship between humans, nature, and technology is complex and interdependent. I explored the symbiotic relationship between nature, human and technology through combining old and new ceramic making techniques.
From my perspective, achieving a balance between traditional craft techniques and new technology techniques to create innovative and hybrid forms of ceramic art is an important challenge for contemporary ceramic artists.
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Finding the balance-4
Glazed Stoneware, Temperature Cones
20*20*30cm
2023
The interwoven relationship between human, nature and machine is complicated yet beautiful. Also the relationship between humans, nature, and technology is complex and interdependent. I explored the symbiotic relationship between nature, human and technology through combining old and new ceramic making techniques.
From my perspective, achieving a balance between traditional craft techniques and new technology techniques to create innovative and hybrid forms of ceramic art is an important challenge for contemporary ceramic artists.
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Shadow Cave
Glazed Stoneware, Underglaze
12*200*35cm
2022
To visualize the shape of emotion and pressure, I make nodules like little balls every time when I feel negative emotion inside my body or I get stressed by the environment. To visualize the effects of emotion, I made a vessel like object that resembles growing nodules and scans this visceral object to create a 3D scan of it and then 3D print it again. After printing them I put pressure on them to make them collapse. This is a direct reference to one's inner feelings, how they affect the body, the surroundings and the environment.
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Floating
Glazed Stoneware, Underglaze, Glass, Ceramic Slip
35*20*35cm
2022
I attempt to visualize the mystery of the human body and society through various ceramic and glass techniques, such as hand-building, blowing and ceramic 3D printing. Using different methods of combining and stressing the material, capturing that resistance and embracing the outcome through a series of making and remaking of a specific object. The combination of different techniques and material is also a metaphor for the symbiotic relationship between nature, human and technology.
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Untitled-2
Porcelain, Magnifying lens
Variable size
2022
In my body, it seems like all of the negative emotions, once generated, converge on the thyroid gland and over time form little nodules. I think it's very interesting, it's a visualization of intangible emotions, but also a visualization of time. I started to make little balls and dig holes in them when I feel not good since last winter, they really like nodules. I find that every time I concentrate and quietly finish the perforated balls by myself, our mood improves a lot. So I think it's a great way to calm down, to heal myself, to record the mood changes over a particular period of time, and these little balls are like containers for storing emotions. It's not just a way of self-expression, it also has a function.
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The Unseen Strength
Porcelain, Glass
Variable size
2022
To portray use of materiality to convey affects of forced stress, I combined nodule like porcelain little balls which have been fired under different temperature into glass marbles. The ceramics objects stresses the glass and in some instances makes it shatter - or look like it is about to shatter to visualize how the stress we feel breaks our body when it wants to be released.
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Symbiosis
Porcelain, Temperature cones
Variable size
2021
To visualize the symbiotic relationship between humans, nature, and technology, I created 3D-printed ceramic objects combined with pyrometric cones. This expresses my thoughts on the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature in the post-epidemic era. The symbiotic relationship between humans and nature is similar to the relationship between ceramic works and pyrometric cones, modern technology and traditional tools, which exist in contradiction but coexist at the same time. In traditional Chinese philosophy, the symbiosis and balance of the five elements - gold, wood, water, fire, and earth - constitute our world. I believe that ceramics are the product of the combination of these five elements. The use of 3D ceramic printing technology, the display of Morse Code, the symbiosis of 81 languages engraved on the work, and the replacement of a pyrometric cone with a cherished object on a pedestal in this work serve as reminders to contemplate what we are doing to nature, and the contradiction and unity between humans and nature.
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Wrapped in the Tech Valley
Porcelain, Stoneware, Underglaze, Gold Luster
25*25*35cm
2022
Visualizing the symbiotic relationship between new technology and old hand craft. I was born in an era of rapid development of science and technology. Science and technology bring people a lot of convenience, but at the same time, it makes people wonder whether there are hidden dangers in such development. Where does the idolatry of technology lead us.
