Kim Le, who also goes by the artist name Komie, is a Vietnamese artist who grew up in Houston, Texas. As a ceramic artist, Kim is no stranger to working with studio art with experience since 2015 with various 2D and 3D art mediums including prints, metalsmithing, paintings, and clay. What originally began as an interest in high school art courses, Kim says, catapulted her interest into the art world. As an emerging ceramic artist, Kim continues to perfect her craft by exploring various methods and styles including ceramic projects, which she touches further on in the interview, as a tribute to the nostalgia of Vietnamese-American culture and the simplistic beauty of the everyday ordinary. In the interview, Kim speaks specifically on how her job at a Vietnamese cuisine restaurant in the Houston area has inspired a recent emerging project on ceramic Vietnamese cultural restaurant objects. Kim discusses her hopes to use her ceramics to inspire a sense of nostalgia and resonation with Vietnamese-American culture. Kim continues to encapsulate elements of her identity and ordinary life into her work and this podcast will touch further on how the use of ceramics has allowed her transpire her messages into action. For more info regarding Kim’s work feel free to visit her website at: bykomie.com. Please enjoy this episode with ceramic artist, Kim Le:
