Mooncake Wishes | by Alice Lee

Ceramics

Mooncake Wishes

Mooncake Wishes is a collection of ceramic dishes, mugs, planters, and vases inspired by the flower shapes found in mooncakes, and the childhood memories I have with my grandma. I was also inspired by the clover flower shapes found naturally in Asian culture — food and pastries (egg tarts! naruto! mangosteens!), architecture, culture, etc. We even had similar floral-shaped dishes that we’d eat mooncakes on growing up.

Each piece feels like a part of me — childhood memories, infused with my heritage and design spin. I began this project over the lunar new year, and completed it by the mid-autumn festival (the holiday traditionally celebrated with mooncakes).

I'd like to put it out there that I would like to infuse ceramics into my installation and mural work. I think that my clover wall vases have a lot of potential here. Hit me up if you'd like to discuss, either for private collectors or a corporate context.

A Year of Ceramics Zine

This zine chronicles my first full year in ceramics across four major ceramic collections: my Mooncake Wishes functional dishware collection, my capybara propogation pots, my Asian Snack vases, and my 50 foxes, 50 memories project.

This project was an incredibly fun way to combine my design, photography and ceramic interests. It showed me the joy and utterly satisfying delight of "full stacking" it on these personal pursuits.

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