"Pursuing simplicity over craftsmanship, favoring awkwardness over cleverness, and seeking rustic charm and elegance?"
To what extent should one abandon craftsmanship?
The casualness achieved purely without refining the form does not actually appeal to me.
Where lies the awkwardness?
"Unfinished, incomplete, imperfect, non-perpetual"
How should these aspects be arranged and preserved?
It seems difficult to clearly articulate the answers to these questions.
In the process of making, I am constantly pondering over dialectics, choices, and compromises.
Perhaps by setting aside these doubts,
I can create a teapot resembling the one I imagine from Mr. Jin Shiheng, representing the person through the teapot.
It is rustic,
And it is also the courageous Pengcheng ink soldier dressed in coarse linen.