“Sinkwhole” is a porcelain vase exploring purity and violence through a container for memory and grief. Shaped like an urn, the inscribed verse guides the viewer the piece inwards of the piece. This piece explores the descent of overthinking, aftermaths of love and how to preserve affection. “Sinkwhole” is a piece about grief.

On it’s surface, hand painted motifs of traditional blue china dragons, flowers and bunnies roam free. These evoke girlhood, innocence and imagination. Bunnies are used in the context of alice in wonderland, where alice’s curiosity becomes her downfall. However, the red bruises mark clear violence of these states, carrying the tension between affection and violence, body and boundary. This mergies the ornamental with the wounded

“Sinkwhole” is a hand-painted porcelain urn that examines fragility as both a material condition and an emotional state.