Moreover, these ashes are sparred from scattering since they are carefully swept and saved. From this educationally charged environment, comes Chu Pan-Hsiung, an unconventional yet impressive teacher. His lessons are rendered in clay, and they are impossible to confine within a classroom. Beauty is all around us. But, people sometimes need help to recognize it.
Public art is one way to refine our vision.
It recreates, repairs and uplifts surroundings that have been lost. In striving towards the beautiful, Chu has had to come to grips with environmental problems disrupting his homeland. As a member of the Green Coalition Organization, dedicated to preserving the Kao-Ping River, and the Meinung Association for the Love of Hometown, he has led citizens in protest over issues concerning natural resources and reckless development. He searched island wide for clays to extract unusual glaze materials, and he applied the findings to objects created in a makeshift studio. The results were exciting, for today he logs nearly 6,000 glaze formulas developed from the iron rich soil of Taiwan.