plant bearing elephant by jungeun lee from korea

Bearing means ‘Give birth to, bear fruit, harvest and endure’.
I considered that humans could not help bearing, spending their lives- It may diverse kinds of suffering by each individual, diverse kinds of obligation and responsibility and destiny.
Humans with complex emotion and thinking system are spending their lives in having an interest than instinct. However, animals are spending their lives in the given destiny in silence according to natural law. I am expressing obligation, suffering, responsibility and sorrow given to humans in a figurative meaning through features that animals are bearing something on their back. Plant Bearing Elephant is an aesthetic figurative work made by my analyzing a practical vessel of ‘Flowerpot’ minimally with an elephant as its motive. Through an elephant which bears a plant needing human’s affection, I considered our obligation which we should live together with nature.
Ceramic ware, having been developed with history of mankind, has largely contributed to convenience in human life, being well-done cleanly and neatly to make human body harmless in 1250 ℃. I put nature, another partner of mankind, in this Plant Bearing Elephant.