Leftover Holiday Mystery Box is a participatory workshop exploring how language, uncertainty, and randomness can be transformed into small wearable porcelain objects.

Using a playful blind-box system as the starting point, participants engage with texture, form, and micro- scale material experimentation to translate anonymous text fragments into tangible narrative pieces they can carry or wear.

Mengya Zhao

The Missing Clue. Ceramic Exploration of Sensory Misalignment and Spatial Recalibration

»During my residency at Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur, I will begin developing The Missing Clue, a series of new porcelain sculptures exploring sensory disorientation and spatial misalignment. Rooted in my personal experience of hearing loss, the project reflects how altered perception reshapes the way I sense and move through space. This condition has made me acutely aware of the invisible negotiations in everyday life: the pauses, misread cues, and quiet acts of reorientation. Through porcelain’s fragility, I aim to give form to these subtle processes of adaptation and rediscovery.«

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