Two in the Hand by Yoko Sekino-Bove

Yoko Sekino-Bove moved to the United States 17 years ago and made a hobby of translating one culture to another and connecting them. In this series, she applies this approach to ceramics. By using small conversation instead of abstract fear and anger, she is able to show us through her work that we are more similar than different. She considers this body of work her quiet resistance against the current political situation, during this time of isolation and confrontation. Sekino-Bove's fake Chinese teapots are made with two distinct sides: one with either a Chinese or Japanese proverb, and the English equivalent on the other. By presenting these proverbs in two different languages, she attempts to bridge cultural gaps by recognizing that different cultures and languages share many profound ideas.