YOU IN EWE

MIRO

Miro Chun makes things you want to hold. Through her studio, Miro Made This, the Korean-American ceramicist brings a quiet, intentional geometry to clay. Her focus is simple: beautiful, understated pieces designed to be used in everyday life and to grow more meaningful as they age.

For Miro, the empty space between objects on a table is just as vital as the work itself. She chooses glazes that welcome the passage of time, letting a simple tea stain or years of shared meals mark each piece with memories.

We spent an easy morning in her studio talking about daily rhythms, studio soundscapes, and her perspective.

YOU IN EWE | MIRO

YOU IN EWE | MIRO

You in EWE is our ongoing series spotlighting the distinct style and daily rituals of local creative forces. It’s an honest look at the personalities shaping our culture, seen through the lens of their Framed Ewe eyewear.

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What time does your day begin?

These days, around 6:30am.

Coffee, tea, or neither??

It varies, if I don’t have the energy to make something, I always have a batch of cold brew on hand with which I can start the day. Otherwise, I’ve been making myself matcha lattes these days.

 

Miro wears Jacques Marie Mage Kay

 

What are you listening to in the studio?

Usually jazz or classical music, or audiobooks (mostly fiction).

Favorite material right now?

I can’t give any other answer than clay [she laughs]. Although I’m always interested in incorporating linen and other fabrics into my work.

 

 

Object you use every day?

I have this geeky book light with a bendy middle that hooks around your neck like a pair of headphones, when they aren’t on your ears. There’s a bright LED light at both ends, with variable brightness and tone. It’s amazingly useful, not just for reading books, but when I’m loading my kiln at night, or needing to look closely at details. My husband says I look like a total nerd while I’m wearing it, but it’s amazingly useful to have a hands-free light.

A shape you keep returning to?

I’ve been making a lot of lidded jars lately. I've always loved containers to hold things.

 

 

When we planned the Jacques Marie Mage Collector's Assembly cups, you asked for lenses and frame parts. What was your initial idea?

I was originally interested in using those pieces as tools for mark-making—the curves and angles of lenses and frames seemed like the perfect size and rigidity with which to deboss and manipulate the raw clay. However, when I started playing with those actual pieces and parts, I realized one of the most interesting things about the lenses were their forms. The shapes are both iconographic, yet abstract. We all know what an eyeglass lens looks like but it’s also just a lovely shape, as well as a marvel of human ingenuity, to be able to create something that helps us see better. So I ended up using those lenses as abstracted forms, scribing their outlines into the clay, or sometimes rolling the thickened edges to create loops and curves into the sides of the pieces, as a way to highlight the inherent beauty of those objects. 

 

Miro cups crafted for the Jacques Marie Mage Collector's Assembly

 

Your favorite local spot?

Futuro Coffee. It’s minimalist and clean, I love the owners and staff there, they have great coffee and tea, and demographic of the people that go there is the most diverse community we’ve found in the valley. (Also, they use my ceramics there).

What are you reading?

I usually have a couple of books that I’m working on, depending on my mood. And there’s never enough time to read as much as I want. Right now, it’s “All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me” by Patrick Bringley, and “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett."

Describe your style in three words.

Minimal, understated, functional.

 

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