Ming Hoop
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Ming Hoop
Category: Sculpture, Crafts
Measures: 20 × 12 × 12 in
Mediums: Burmese rosewood，Golden nanmu
Year: 2024This work grew out of my study of traditional Ming-style furniture making. While learning panel construction techniques used in tabletops to control wood movement, as well as circular joinery found in round-back chairs and drum stools, I became aware of a recurring structural rhythm. As a hooper, the circular logic of these joints immediately resonated with the form of a basketball hoop. The backboard is constructed through layered panel joinery, nested together and held in tension with curved joints to form the hoop. For me, making is not only a means of production but a way of thinking. Daily work with chisels, saws, and planes shapes how ideas emerge, allowing form to grow through the act of making itself.