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In Korean traditional folktales, everyday utilitarian objects often appear as mediating devices that enable transformation. The “Magic Millstone” is one such object—rooted in craft traditions yet capable of producing anything through a simple act of grinding—blurring the boundary between function and imagination. These narratives suggest that craft is not merely utilitarian, but operates as a structure through which desire, belief, and possibility are materialised.

This project takes the “Magic Millstone” as a conceptual framework to explore how a utilitarian object can become a generative system rather than a fixed tool. Textile artist Sun Lee and 3D artist spacekkabbi combine material and digital practices, bringing together Hanji-based sculptural forms and 3D-generated elements through AR technology developed by Unknown Ocean. Here, craft becomes an interface that activates transformation across physical and virtual dimensions.

The installation invites visitors to move between these layers, encountering moments of friction between analogue and digital, tangible and immaterial. By foregrounding these tensions, the work questions how craft—once grounded in function—can be reconfigured as a space of imagination, negotiation, and evolving meaning.

The project opens a space to consider how inherited forms are extended, distorted, and reconfigured, while exposing the conditions and structures that determine how they are recognised, sustained, or overlooked.


Hanji paper, Mixed media
198 x 103 x 103 (cm)

Hanji Sculpture: Sun Lee
3D: spacekkabbi
AR: Unknown ocean
Visual & Communication: Masaya Kochi
Photo: Suk Park

Exhibited:
Microlab hall
Dutch Design Week 2023
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 2023