The «CHO» Project is a series of ceramic objects inspired by my short film, which explores hidden brutality, suppressed emotions, and the contradiction between external gentleness and internal pain. Stuffed toys, usually associated with safety, comfort, and solace, are recontextualized through ceramics, transforming into frozen sculptural forms.
Production Technology — the creation of ceramic objects based on soft toy molds, followed by firing and the application of a glaze that mimics a viscous organic substance.
This work explores the contrast between external innocence and hidden cruelty through the transformation of familiar objects. Soft toy forms are combined with a hard ceramic surface, and a glaze resembling viscous slime from a film creates the sensation that the objects have been captured by an unknown substance and are permanently frozen in a moment of transformation. This image becomes a metaphor for repressed experiences, internal tension, and emotions that a person attempts to conceal or control.
The size of the pieces is 15–25 cm, depending on the original shape of the toys.
This scale allows each object to be perceived as an independent sculpture, while retaining the recognizability and visual expressiveness of its original form. In this series, various soft toys are transformed into ceramic artifacts from the film, like frozen testaments to the events unfolding within its space. Thus, the project continues the film’s concept, in which external softness does not guarantee safety, and suppressing one’s own feelings or ignoring internal tension can lead to destructive consequences.
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The visualization was created using Kling.Ai
