Before I made necklaces, I was drawn to small ceramic things: animal figures, objects for the home, and the kind of pieces that make an ordinary shelf feel a little more alive. I began teaching myself how to make ceramic objects because I wanted to live with those kinds of details, not just look at them.
At first, I made small pieces simply because I loved them. Over time, I started noticing that many ceramic objects around me felt very similar. There was ceramic jewelry too, but I kept wondering what would happen if a familiar object could become something smaller, stranger, and closer to the body.
A chair is more than a chair
The chair was one of the first forms that stayed with me. It is an everyday object, but it also carries a feeling: a place where someone has just been, a pause in a room, a tiny invitation to sit down. In miniature, it becomes less practical and more like a small character.
That was the beginning of the Chair Necklace. I did not want to make a tiny chair only to imitate a real one. I wanted each one to keep the memory of a chair while becoming its own ceramic form, with its own color, markings, and mood.
Why cups followed
Cups belong to the same world for me. They are simple, familiar, and held close. A cup can suggest a quiet morning, a table, a conversation, or a small pause in the day. Turning one into a necklace changes its scale and purpose, but it keeps that sense of closeness.
The Cup Necklaces grew from this idea. They are not made to be functional cups. They are small ceramic objects made to be worn: a familiar form carried into a different kind of everyday life.
Made from beginning to end by hand
Every necklace is made by me from the first step to the final piece. I shape, glaze, fire, and finish each one by hand. That means the small differences are real: the way a glaze settles, the edge of a painted detail, or the slight change that happens when clay goes through the fire.
I do not try to erase those shifts. They are part of what makes a handmade ceramic object feel alive. No two pieces arrive in exactly the same way, even when they begin from the same idea.
Small things can travel far
When I began making miniature ceramic objects, people in China responded warmly to them. That response gave me the courage to keep following the small forms that interested me, rather than making objects only because they were familiar or expected.
Glimmer Hollow grew from that direction: a place for small ceramic forms with their own presence. Chair and Cup necklaces are the current focus, but they are part of a wider practice that will continue to include objects for keeping, wearing, and living with.
See the current ceramic jewelry collection, or read Fii’s story to learn more about Glimmer Hollow.