Yellow Hare
Jiha Moon

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.