✹ Artist Research - Eny Lee Parker
11th April 2022
                


The form of organic, playful, soft and smiley just give me the feeling of friendliness. Also, with a glimpse of femininity, not too loud – just in the right amount. The color of material she chooses play big part of love to her, terracotta and white clay just giving the sense of welcoming and easy to go with other objects around it.

The word ‘friendly’ I don’t feel much of that feeling from other objects that I like, the objects Eny made are unique yet simple and easy to mix with other objects.

Seeing it from maker point of view, it almost might be too simple, the form, material and interior mechanism  are nothing new, yet the most challenging part is it’s scale as well as the way she play with that simplicity. Almost of the time what I found challenging most is when I come up with new simple design, it’s really challenging on how to push your project forwards base on what you have previously. Eny has done it beautifully with the strong essence of her style

Sometime I doubt myself too much. Way too much when come the time I design something simple, almost like fearing if other people would look at my design and would think ‘she didn’t put her brain into this’ 

Thinking about it, Eny design consist only of Clay and lighting which is simple and basic but what make it so special is that the essense of her story telling and the community she’s in, also this was made 6 years ago where ceramic furniture wasn’t a thing. In craft world, I found, they value a lot about people behind the work. It’s important of who you are and how you hade the object. So much so, this story isn’t much value in industrial design world, there people focus more on how to solve problems and how to make human’s life easier. Craft might focus less on that but we do appreciate more of the object and the life of people behind them.