Porcelain Bowl #2

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While Dr Iskandar's collection of bowls pays tribute to the master of porcelain, the late David Leach, it asserts a whimsical identity that sets it apart from Leach's sober style. Dr Iskandar's bowls are uniquely idiosyncratic and refuse to behave like any others. They flaunt irregular rims, pierced holes, small body nubs, and even one that stubbornly resists standing upright - returning to rest askew. Dr Iskandar sheds light on porcelain through his writings, extolling its virtues as producing bowls "so thin they're filled with light" and which "vibrate" as if made for a sacred purpose. He describes porcelain's ephemerality poetically, likening it to "fragments of my memories". Dr Iskandar also reveals that working with porcelain was "a kind of suffering", due to its low plasticity, demanding nature, and the fact that it didn't feel like an extension of himself.