Food, Tableware, and Their Stories 05: Ceramic Artist Wang Meiyun Honestly Faces Herself in Nature
The first time I visited Teacher Wang Meiyun's studio in Yangmingshan, it was winter, yet the sunlight that day was warm. Against that gentle daylight, I rode the bus up the mountain together with tourists who had come to see the flowers. The bus climbed the slope the whole way, like the wind, until it reached "Fengwei" [Note 1].
Even though it was clearly our first meeting, Teacher Wang was as warm as an old friend. "Let's take a walk nearby first," Teacher Wang said the moment she saw me, inviting me to stroll along the mountain path beside the studio. I had been worrying whether my preparations for the interview were sufficient and whether my questions were appropriate, but the next second I was being led by Teacher Wang and her daughter Yixiang, walking along an ordinary small path in Yangmingshan.
This is a road Teacher Wang usually walks in daily life. To know the work, perhaps one should start with daily life and the scenery one sees; perhaps that is what Teacher Wang was thinking. Along the way, we talked about the tea trees by the road, the neighbor's dog, and ordinary household chores, such as Teacher Wang's life of making tea by picking tea leaves by hand, rolling and roasting them. Of course, we also talked about Teacher Wang's life in ceramics, and often the conversation would suddenly turn to the work of Japanese folk craft masters Shoji Hamada [Note 2] and Kawai Kanjiro [Note 3].
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