The ceramic series, and what is in each

Jul 28, 2026

The 18 ceramic pieces Tangled Monk Pte. Ltd. has drawn at its Joo Chiat studio since 2025 are grouped into named series. The grouping is not merchandising: a series is a run of drawings made in the same register, and knowing which is which tells you more about a piece than the price does.

A Language of Blue — five pieces

A Soft Equation, Unlearning Symmetry, Quiet Consensus, Where Order Frays and Suspended Drift. All 28 x 28 cm, all S$295, all in blue ink on raw clay. The titles are the clue to the series: each one is a small argument about order and its failure, drawn rather than written.

The Ethereal Quartet — four pieces

Ethereal Fold, Ethereal Bloom, Ethereal Spin and Ethereal Core, at S$645 each. Same 28 x 28 cm medallion format as A Language of Blue, but drawn as a set — the four share a grammar and are meant to hang together. As a two-by-two block with a 3 cm gap they occupy 59 cm square; in a single row, 121 cm.

Tangled Blessings — ten pieces

The devotional series, S$450 to S$1,650. It spans surfaces rather than sitting only on ceramic, and it holds the pieces with the most personal history behind them. There is a separate guide to this series.

Beyond ceramic

Two more series sit entirely on other surfaces. Tangled Tranquility is three handmade-paper works at S$1,320, all 34 x 34 cm — the calm end of the catalogue, named for what it is trying to do. Riverbed Echoes is the four canvas works, the water series, and the largest things the studio has made.