Viewing carefully through the light, the thin and translucent porcelain boasts a gentle simplicity with flawless elegance. Fired at a high temperature of 1300☌, the porcelain develops a pure and delicate glaze with soft hues and shine without impurities, adorned with 22K gold. In the process of coloring, the work undergoes a process of reduction firing to deoxidate the metal oxides in the porcelain clay to its original essence, achieving hardness and a compact quality, which is not easily oxidized and stands the test of time.
As porcelain dolls of the size of an elf in palm, each part of the body is flawless connected with exquisite skills. As for each figure, the dynamics of the body to the hair and even the soles are entirely preserved. The technique overcame the possible failures of collapse or fragmentation due to gravity or modeling principle during the high-temperature firing process, which enables the porcelain art to break away from the limitation of a heavy base and increase multi-directional see-through features and unique angles of appreciation, as the beautiful imagery in “modern drama”. Thus, when one views the artwork, either from front to back, or from top to bottom, there is a full range of angles of appreciation without visual blind spot.
Shao did not postpone the development plan but chose to fulfill his promises by financial loans.Īfter two years of technical development, material research, repeated experiments, and countless failures of attempts, the work, Journey to the West-Flaming Mountains, finally had a major firing breakthrough in 2008 with the unique "720-degree three-dimensional circular carving skill". However, after the plan had been launched, the global financial tsunami struck, and YUIMOM Construction (now YUIMOM Group) faced immediate financial difficulties. Speculating on the gap between craftsmanship and arts, he invested 12 million in the same year to assist the craftsman in the technical transformation and thus the project, Journey to the West-Flaming Mountains is initiated. Yungtien Shao, the founder of YUIMOM Group, deeply felt that while senior craftsmen in Taiwan have honed the exquisite craftsmanship for decades, the general income seemed to be hard to improve.
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