Landscape Tail is a set of porcelain artists' paintbrushes created by Oornament Studio that are both functional design objects and decorative sculptures in their own right.
Led by American designer Daniel Huang and Taiwanese artist Su Yu-Xin, the studio wanted to explore the idea of making an artwork out of an object that is normally considered solely as an artist's tool.
Landscape Tail is a set of sculptural paintbrushes
The resulting project is Landscape Tail, a collection of earthy and pastel-toned paintbrushes created by Huang from kaolin clay, which is fired at high temperatures in a kiln and becomes porcelain.
Each piece of porcelain is fitted with hand-bound brush bristles, attached to marine-grade 316 stainless steel ferrules, or small rings joined together. The brushes are handmade from porcelain
Informed by conversations with Yu-Xin about colour, Huang designed the brushes with nature in mind.
"The porcelain body is inspired by landscape formation, and the metaphoric tail represents the echoing of brush-marks," Huang told Dezeen
"As many artist pigments are made from earth minerals, we decided to create brushes that carried the hint of a relationship with earth ? in this case, clay, and the choices of glaze were selected among different tones found in nature."

Landscape Tail was created during a two-week trip in Jingdezhen, China. Dubbed the country's Porcelain Capital, the city has a well-documented history of producing some of China's most...