The Hare Jumps over the Moon!
Name of Item for Sale - "The Hare Jumps over the Moon!"
Artist - Josephine Lai
Medium - Clay/Pottery
Size – 10" wide X 13" high
Price - $150
Shipping - $40 USPS retail ground (domestic US)
Style # -
% to Charity - 30%

Details:
Hand built and painted porcelain vase with detachable stopper.

The full moon is a symbol of unity in the Chinese culture, full of legends and myths, subject of poems and songs. While legend has it that the hare lives on the moon, it is easier to imagine the spirited creature fly over the desert on a spectacular moonlit night.
150.00 USD
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Josephine Lai grew up in Hong Kong and studied in London. She came to the United States for a career in the biosciences, and eventually joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She lives in Tucson and loves the Southwest for its landscape, history and cultural heritage. After retiring from teaching and research in 2011, she started practicing art full-time. She has set up a ceramics studio to create original sculptural and functional work. Her online company, Readingteacher.com, which she co-owns with her husband, Francis Morgan, consists of books that she illustrated as part of a program for beginning English readers. She practices Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, and digital photography. Her ceramic work is shown regularly at an art gallery in Tucson; she also donates her works to charitable auctions and fundraising events.

Of her work Josephine says, "My work reflects my passion in natural history, environmental conservation, and an idiosyncratic mix of multi-culturalism with my Oriental heritage, Western education, and having lived in so many places. My sculptural pieces resulted from an initial exploration into Chinese and Japanese folklore and fables, of a world where animals can transfigure into human form (they are called Shape Shifters), where human are not the master of the world, but the power of animals can subvert, as well as ultimately protect, the survival of human. These Shape Shifters also teach lessons of morals to children, often in a humorous way, much like those of Aesop and Hans Christian Andersen. Shape Shifters also exist in Western folklore, including Irish and German, and Native American Kachinas are a familiar version as well.

I also like to use functional forms as three dimensional canvases to depict multiple perspectives of a subject matter on contiguous two dimensional surfaces, such as the outside and inside of a bowl."
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