Wang Kezhen’s work explores the concept of vessels. The ‘Rice Vessel’ series is inspired by the rice-eating tradition in Chinese culinary culture. Because of the importance of rice to Chinese cuisine, historically, many special rice cooking and serving vessels have been invented and made with different materials, their forms catered to the need to contain rice grains. Wang Kezhen’s series is produced by a painstaking process: each silver ‘rice grain’ is hand made by honing; meanwhile a ceramic mould is made copying the form of a historic example of ceramic rice bowl; the silver rice grains are then soldered together to from the shape of a vessel using the mould.