Casey Chong — 'Tea-Drenched Vessels: 00 Paper Cup' with Blue Dots

Part of the ‘Tea-Drenched Vessels’ series, Chong interplays with the forms, materials and functionality of the paper cup, a common, convenient and highly disposable everyday object. Particularly in Hong Kong where everything has to be fast, efficient and convenient, interaction with paper cups, of various sizes, is on a very regular basis without even realising. The form of disposed cups is often developed from the user’s traits, such as the preferred way to hold a cup.

With 00 Paper Cup, Chong recreated the used-paper-cup form with a more refined and durable material, Porcelain, with a high gloss finish - a polar opposite of the original media. In the process of crafting new forms with clay, she had the tactile feeling of how users might experience when holding and created ergonomic silhouettes that offer a user’s (herself) ‘comfort-hold’ form to other users. The piece is crafted by slipcasting while the form was manipulated at the pre-set stage and stamped with Chong's marking.

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Casey Chong is a designer and creator. She runs Chong Office, an office of spontaneous ongoing works, processes and explorations concurrently in Melbourne and Hong. Her practice extends from ceramics to furniture and other explorations of form and function.

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Material: Porcelain

Dimensions: ø 50 x 75 mm

Please note, due to the handmade nature of these pieces, there may be slight variances from the image listed.