Blown Sugar Figure · In a Single Breath
2025
China
A five-second sugar sculpting captures five thousand years of sweetness.
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Created by
Keria Kong
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Produced by Keria Kong
This work captures a five-second moment of a traditional intangible cultural heritage craftsperson shaping sugar with a single breath and a single pinch, expanding it into a microcosm of five thousand years of sweetness. Molten sugar solidifies instantly when cooled, and within one breath, the sweetness of the human world is frozen into eternity.
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