51:. Growing up, her mother was insistent about the family sitting down together to share meals, which prompted her to consider food as both a source of communication and a form of social and cultural expression. Prior to beginning her art career, Shih had been working as a copywriter. She started to throw and sculpt in clay as a therapeutic way to manage chronic pain. Since 2009, she has been living and working in
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dynasties. Thereafter, she started to create hand-folded porcelain dumplings. Shih has since created over one-thousand ceramic dumplings. These dumplings are vessels that hold significant emotional memories. Shih began making real pork-filled dumplings at an early age with her family and recognized
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