Dongheng Yang
Destination Unknown
‘Keep it centered!’
My experience as a glassblowing apprentice struggling to blow glass symmetrically has largely informed my studio practice. I embrace humor and absurdity thinking about the unachievable perfection and the inevitable flaws in my vessel making processes. Vessels are essentially my sources of inspiration. I am interested in revisiting their making processes, their structural elements, and their functions as essentially presentational or serving mechanisms. I often play around with means of display, bringing furniture and architectural structures into my jokes.
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![A slumped hand-blown goblet hanging at a pedestal precariously with its puntil mark.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_02.jpg?itok=SEnCqTmn)
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![A slumped hand-blown bowl.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_03.jpg?itok=vWQoEzME)
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![Front side of a mirror with a halved hand-blown footed dish glued on.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_04.png?itok=xnnQK-wi)
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![Back side of the mirror where the other half of the slumped dish is acting as a stand.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_05.png?itok=KVkzuApf)
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![Front side of a mirror with halved hand-blown vessels glued to reference still-life painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_06.png?itok=7hHDDTz6)
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![Top view of the mirror with halved vessels featuring the flawless halves of on the frontside and the cracked on the backside.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_07.png?itok=QXajx-d8)
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![Various hand-blown vessels made to be capable of standing upright on a sloped tabletop.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Glass_DonghengYang_10.jpg?itok=mGmVXCHN)