”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, the pastels, are emblematic of the contradictions of emotional resilience: pain becomes ornamental, silence becomes language.
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.
