Details

Title

Yellow Hare

Artist/Maker

Jiha Moon

Date

2023

Medium

Stoneware, porcelain, underglaze, glaze

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Friends of Decorative Arts and Design

Accession #

2023.71

Location

Currently not on view

“I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds,” says Korean-born ceramist Jiha Moon. True to this self-description, Yellow Hare is a (self)portrait in disguise that gestures to Moon’s fluid identities. With its Korean dumpling ears and Chinese fortune cookie eyes, the anthropomorphic vase is emblazoned with faces, flowers, hearts, eyes, and animals—an iconography simultaneously evoking traditional Asian printmaking and a tattoo flash book. The yellow glaze and banana skin suggest joy and happiness while also referring to disparaging ethnic stereotypes of Asian Americans.