The Vast Within
the Small
Vessels
3D Conceptual Design
#3d objects #sculpture #utensils #rendering #eastern culture
This series is a body of 3D conceptual design and rendered works centred on the idea of Chinese fantasy vessels, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of ancient Chinese objects, decorative language and ways of thinking. Taking everyday vessels that once carried both daily life and spiritual order as a starting point, the works treat these objects as mediators between personal experience, social structure and broader views of the world.
By breaking down and reworking classical decorative systems, and embedding architectural forms, landscape elements and natural imagery within the objects themselves, each vessel becomes a readable micro world. Through this strategy of using small scale forms to hold larger narratives, the series explores the principle of seeing the whole through detail, extending a traditional mode of thought into a contemporary digital context and presenting the vessel as both a cultural trace and a container of ideas.
This series is a body of 3D conceptual design and rendered works centred on the idea of Chinese fantasy vessels. It offers a contemporary reinterpretation of ancient Chinese objects, decorative language and systems of thought. The project takes vessels that once carried both everyday life and spiritual order as its point of departure, treating them as mediators between individual experience, social structure and wider views of the universe.
In traditional Chinese culture, vessels are not only functional objects but also carriers of ethical values, ideas of time, and relationships between humans and nature, expressed through form, proportion and ornament. This understanding of objects as bearers of meaning forms the cultural foundation of the series.
The works deconstruct and reassemble classical decorative languages, translating traditional patterns, structural order and symbolic logic into a contemporary visual vocabulary. Architectural forms, landscape imagery and elements of nature are embedded within the vessels, transforming them into readable micro worlds. Through this approach of using small-scale forms to hold larger narratives, the series allows time, nature and civilisation to unfold within a limited space, guiding the viewer from close observation into broader spatial and conceptual layers.
Guided by the idea of seeing the whole through detail, the series extends a classical way of thinking into a contemporary digital medium. The vessels function both as traces of lived culture and as containers of thought, using imagined spaces to connect intimate, micro-level experience with expansive views of the world.