Condensed Yao Breath Mini Tea Bowl

**Breath-Suspended Glaze System | Dream-Bubble Gel Glaze**

The Breath-Suspended Glaze System is an original contemporary glaze system developed by Pan Yu-Feng.

It is not driven by a single glaze color or surface effect,
but by a condition:
to allow different states of matter to coexist simultaneously,
preserving transformations before they reach completion.

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During firing,
the glaze enters a threshold of softening and flow.
Gases are generated, expand, and move—

some escape,
while others are enclosed and retained within the glaze layer.

At the same time,
elements within the clay body are drawn out under high temperature,
emerging from within to meet and merge with the glaze.

Color therefore does not reside only on the surface,
but is driven from within.

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Within this system,
body, glaze, and gas are not separate layers,
but an interdependent structure.

The body provides the internal source,
the glaze forms a field of flow and containment,
and gas generates pressure and voids within it.

Acting together,
they bring the vessel into a state between solid, liquid, and gas.

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Dream-Bubble is one manifestation within this system.

Gas remains suspended within the flowing glaze,
forming a gel-like structure—
with indistinct boundaries and internal tension.

The red does not sit on the surface,
but originates from the clay body,
drawn out through movement and pressure,
lingering within or seeping into the glaze.

Color thus exists both inside and outside,
forming unstable and continuously shifting layers.

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Breath-Suspension does not stop change.

It holds change at a point before completion.

Gas has not fully dissipated,
liquid has not fully flowed away,
interior and surface are not fully separated.

Different states overlap in the same moment,
forming a condition of sustained tension.

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Through use,
these preserved states are reactivated.

Temperature, humidity, and light enter the vessel,
causing details within the glaze to appear and recede,
allowing the surface to continue transforming.

The object is no longer merely an exterior shell,
but an active interior system.

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The Breath-Suspended Glaze System does not replicate nature,
nor imitate existing materials.

It establishes a condition—
where multiple phases of matter coexist,
and time remains suspended in the unfinished.

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**Breath-Suspension is the act of holding transformation in its unfinished state.**