”THE PROLIFERATION OF GROWING PAINS” Tracking the emotional expansion of girlhood through fragile ceramic forms . . . In The Proliferation of Growing Pains, I examine the tender yet uneasy process of emotional growth. Through the ceramic sculptures of broken bunnies, butterfly frames, and bone-like objects, I translate inner disarray into material form. Each piece alludes to the sweet continuing simultaneous force of quiet and rupture, of beauty and vulnerability growing side by side. This body of work continues my investigation of girlhood as a mental landscape, a landscape of anxiety, fragility, and self-repair, located in the self. The recurring cracks and the pastel colours are emblematic of the contradictions of emotional resilience: pain becomes ornamental, silence becomes languages.
Miko Fan is a ceramic artist currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics) at RMIT University. Her practice incorporates notions of memory, emotion, and aesthetics of “kawaii melancholy,” processing delicate psychological states into narratives of material.
