# @gordoncheung on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DS0oP47gYBy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61440268-gordoncheung-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-28T21:31:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Gordon Cheung 張逸斌 (@gordoncheung) — https://gondola.cc/gordoncheung

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I was drawn to 3D printed porcelain powder process as it hold’s the entire arc of creation in one breath: from the ancient mud of Nüwa’s hands to the silicon ghost of tomorrow. In Jingdezhen,  clay has been coaxed into translucency for a thousand years, I feed that same primordial earth, now ground into an ultra-fine powder into a machine that builds mountains layer by microscopic layer. The porcelain powder binds  into low polygon peaks that echo the scholar rocks my ancestors once placed on their desks to contemplate the universe. Yet these peaks are not sculpted by nature’s rivers of time but from code into geometries; simulations of natures. This act feels deeply philosophical to me: the oldest material myth, clay as the substance of life, now mediated through the newest myth of perfect replication. The powder process, with its near-zero shrinkage after firing, grants an almost impossible fidelity between intention and outcome, as if the digital blueprint and the fired stone are finally allowed to occupy the same moment. Spiritually, it is a quiet rebellion against entropy: the mountain that took millennia to erode is reborn in hours, yet carries the memory of those millennia in its facets. These printed rocks become meditations on our present condition: microcosms no longer of natural landscapes but of data landscapes, terrains shaped by torrents of information rushing faster than any river. The 3d printed porcelain powder sculpture of a scholar rock encapsulates a paradox; humble earth transformed into crystalline code, holding both the weight of eternity and the half-life of a render. When I later seal them in vacuum-plated metal, that chrome skin completes the thought: the ancient dream of harmony with nature now reflects back our restless, electric selves. These porcelain mountains are my way of meditating on universal questions about our humanity and its myths in the digital era.
#GordonCheung #scholarrocks #porcelain

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