Sooin Lee records everyday scenes through clay. Her work begins with familiar objects and forms encountered in daily life, seeking to embed warmth and traces of time within the cold, rigid nature of ceramics. Rooted in a personal experience of finding comfort in the softness of textiles, she translates that gentle sensation into clay. Using hand-building techniques, she works with soft white porcelain clay, carefully applying stitch-like details one by one. These recurring stitched elements function not as decoration, but as a visual language that suggests the accumulation of time. Layered onto the solid surface, this sense of softness allows each piece to hold its own distinct form and quiet warmth, offering comfort to those who encounter the work.
Ceramics & Pottery
Craft
The Stitch Cup is hand-built using porcelain clay. Its soft curves and fabric-like wrapped form create a subtle yet distinctive presence on the table.
While fully functional for everyday use, the piece also carries the quality of a sculptural object. The raised stitch details applied along the rim offer not only a visual accent but also a delicate tactile experience when the lips meet the surface.
Layered over the solid ceramic body, these refined elements introduce a gentle tension between softness and solidity, naturally bridging the boundary between use and contemplation.
Production Year: 2025
Production Technique: Hand-building
This vase is hand-built using paper clay. The word “vase” is stitched onto the front, while the phrase “flower in” appears on the back. Though grammatically incomplete, the phrase functions both as a direct reference to the object’s use and as a formal element layered onto the surface. The language follows the contours of the form, creating its own distinct rhythm in relation to the structure.
The raised stitch details engage not only the eye but also the fingertips, extending the piece beyond a functional vessel into a sculptural presence.
Production Year: 2026
Production Technique: Hand-building
The Stitch Ball Cap Object is part of the [Reflection] series. It began during the COVID-19 period, when extended time at home led to a renewed observation of familiar spaces and everyday objects.
Rooted in the comfort found in the softness of textiles within that space, the work takes as its starting point the question of what it would be like if the objects and environments we use daily were made of fabric. By reconstructing this idea through the materiality of clay, the piece seeks to embed warmth and tactile softness within a familiar form. Through this reconfiguration of space, the artist hopes that viewers will feel a sense of warmth and comfort within the form.
Production Year: 2025
Production Technique: Hand-building
