Yuan Du
Du Yuan creates ceramic vessels shaped by time, stillness, and elemental touch. Her practice begins with hand-building—pinching, coiling, pressing—each motion slow, deliberate, and quiet. She chooses wood firing not for effect, but for its unpredictability. Fire leaves marks. Ash settles unevenly. What emerges is not decoration, but memory.
She works in a hybrid space that feels less like a studio, more like a private rhythm. There, objects are not made to impress but to accompany. Most of her works are vases and tea vessels—functional, but also reflective. They hold space, but more importantly, they create it.
Her surfaces are bare or barely glazed. Color is subdued, texture honest. What speaks is not shine, but silence. She makes work that listens—to breath, to season, to use.
In the cosmology of the Five Elements, Du Yuan’s practice embodies Earth: grounding, receptive, and transformative. These vessels are not born to fill shelves. They are shaped to stay.
To live with a Du Yuan piece is to enter the pace of something older than habit—something closer to breath.
SOTACA on Du Yuan
We see in Yuan a reverence for time and tactility. Her works speak softly, but stay. In their restraint is a strength—one that transforms space not with drama, but with depth.
SOTACA Pairing Note
Ideal for interiors rooted in calm and natural materiality. Pair with soft oak, pale linen, raw plaster, or unfinished surfaces. Let stillness lead.
杜媛以陶土为语言，创作出被时间、静默与自然触感雕琢的器物。她坚持手作成型——搓揉泥料、盘绕泥条、按压坯体——每个动作都从容、克制而专注。她选择柴窑烧制，不为追求特殊效果，而是信奉不可控的真实。火焰会留下吻痕，灰烬自然垂落。这些印记，不是刻意装饰，而是时光的记忆。
杜媛的工作空间更像一个"韵律场域"——这里不是寻常的陶艺工坊，而是一处私密的生活时区。她的创作以花器与茶器为主，不刻意讨好观者，只安静相伴。这些器物不仅存在于空间之中，更在重塑空间本身。
她的表面处理极尽克制——或施薄釉，或留素坯，色调沉静，质地本真。这些作品并非在表达，而是在聆听——聆听气息流转、四时更迭与触摸者的温度。
在五行哲学中，她的创作深得"土"性：沉稳、包容，蕴藏缓慢而深远的蜕变。这些器物生来不为展示，而是为了封存某种隽永的在场感。
与杜媛的作品相处，便是沉浸于一种超越日常、近乎呼吸韵律的时态之中。
SOTACA 致杜媛
在杜媛的创作里，我们见证了时间与触觉的虔诚对话。她的器物始终静默如谜，却蕴藏恒久的存在。这份克制之中，孕育出举重若轻的空间诗学。
SOTACA 搭配建议
最宜置于宁静、素朴而富有律动的环境。建议配搭：浅调原木肌理、未染麻织品、哑光石质表面或原生材质。令空寂成为空间的语言。