kintsugi returns
laquered pulses of 3 bruised cups to a new.

Black and red laquer, silver highlights of a flower blooms. 2025.

A cup with a chipped rim and handle broke into 3 parts. Repaired and reinforced with mugi-urushi. A silver finish. 2024.

hairline crack 髮絲裂紋 (work in progress)



Recombining leftover eggshells of different colors. A combination of white, light pink, brown and speckled (thousand year perseved eggs) shells.
Red laquer finish and gold powder loosely speckled on some areas.
A sculpture in Writing as method group exhibition, 2024.

Bangkok art bookfair from December 6-7,  2025

Shadow library Manual: Zine workshop and library of Asia Art Archive try try zine residents

CHAO, S. Yi Yao, and Bri WIRAKUSUMAH. *Shadow Library Instruction Manual. Bangkok: S. Yi Yao CHAO, Bri WIRAKUSUMAH,   2025.

Link to e-copy

*we hosted a contributors workshop and made 20 copies. For the bookfair we made 60 copies to exchange, gift and use in the workshops and bookfair.

We received an invitation from the organisers of Bangkok Art Bookfair Biennial and resonated with the fair’s theme on quiet revolution. We wanted to extend our invitation to our zine residents and host zine workshops and a pop-up library in our exhibitor table that engage in reflective repair and ‘copyleft’. The Shadow Library Manual is a love letter turned manual, edited and produced with Bri Wirakisimah. It is a manual to be deconstructed in a workshop and for the participants to add their own pages out of the zine scraps of Asia Art Archive’s Try Try Zine residents (Chen Mo, Jane Yan Yi Cheung, Jay Lau, Ning Ning, and Alice Tsang). The workshop was part of the bookfair programme Open grounds whispering  in the BACC library for the weekend, that engages with a capacity of 10 participants each session.

                                    Wabiwasabi Pottery Pop Up Market 

@ taiwai 

16-17/12, 2023 1-8 pm

圍揪市集

    Wabiwasabi Encircle Market: 圍揪市集

2026
 18-19.2 3-6pm

In a residential area, this market had a mix of craftmans, healers and ceramists. There was discounted stall that was quite to savage bowls at a pay as you wish price. There were also artwork, that camaflouged  too well that people would step over already broken pieces and thought they broke something.

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Ding is closing the space and offered the last 2 month of the cermic studio lease to have a market and events and workshop. Bringing many artist groups together. Closings are a good reason to gather and so is a new year. Thank you for all the friends that came by. 

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The booth is shared with All Woods and Seiseihouse. 

Then there was a change of scents of insence burning and massages when there was no traffic. With markets it’s hard to make profits and in breaking even or any profits you buy a bowl or a hat from the other booths; chit chat and open up to a strangers intimacy. 
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I repaired
a rattle from bisque fire clay, with broken scraps inside an enclosed shell. after bringing a suitcase to the peng chau market, i am learning to make something smaller lighter and useful. So I made some spoon a batch of 8. the back had an edition no. and I broke and repaired one. In repeating, the arm of the spoon starts to warp. Pinching a spoon is very sculptural.

Hosted and poster/promotion and made by Ding Chu


In the center of the fair all the unused clay were up for grabs to make a collective totem. Later gleaned and reused for other small programmes. I also have some in the studio now, which is probably a lifetime supply. She bought a tonne from taiwan because it was the closest to source but she had to order more. Then the leftover is mostly given to schools and other ceramists. But while we were packing the clay into bags for distrubution we were just talking about our studios having more than we need given from other people’s studio and art projects. It takes time to process and not waste. Thank you ding!

Amberbook
edible poetry workshop 
Collaboration with Cheung Yan Yi 




Invitation text:
Amber is a fossilised tree resin, when burnt with a needle there is a caramelising scent of pine. As a gemstone, they represent the tears of god and are tear droplets from the sun.



          Photo by rain, Poster by Cheung Yan Yi


sometimes, it captures fossilised insects, flown amidst the pine’s cry. An edible amber substitute; brown sugar agar jelly will be a surface to burn symbols (out of wire), to create ripples and a poem to ponder and write collectively.  The gem will be used to sweeten tea. We invite you, to twist wire — create a letter to burn on an amber agar jelly. To decipher these squiggles and imaginations.

Soundclips
Sound zine workhshop at Floating Projects Art Bookfair 
Collaboration with Chen Mo + ASTROJOKE


Invitation text:The missing voice: “The inner voice is not a singular voice, but a multitude of voices. Many voices speak in our minds at the same time. I guess that inner voice is more than just sounds. There is a visual component to it too, the imagery that comes to our mind. It has a scent, a taste, a sense. There are a variety of stimuli. The exact spot where words fail to describe it fully…If I feel something, that feeling has no language…” —Excerpted from A Dictionary of Sensitive Sounds by Elif Öner and Evrim Kavcar, page 77

                                Poster by Chen Mo

We want to amplify the quiet activity of binding a book. No marks have to be made, we will provide loose pages/texture of imaginary sound prompts. We attached contact mics on our binding tools and everyday objects that clip, fastens and stitches. A contact mic picks up and reverberates on different surfaces. Sandwich on beeswax it plucks a siren’s cry. Taped on clips, the sound bounces and crinkles. On the back of a spoon, the wood deepens the sound, like aiming a bucket on a well.  May we shift our ears to the tools that bind loose pages, before a legible and published sequence/narrative. They can be heard, reverberated, rubbed and scratched on different surfaces, let’s spy on them and hear their inner monologues and clashes. Feel free to bring your own zines, surfaces and paper to interact with these sound clips!