20260527，這個工作室第一次有了真實的網址：earthscape-studio.com。我跟 Opus 4.7 一起來回了好多次終於完成 deploy(感謝 AI 教我買網域跟環境佈署)——然後就上線了。
明明只做了幾個 prototype 花瓶, 還燒炸了兩個素坯 —— 但「earthscape-studio.com」這個字串就先 debut 了。就跟我的其他部份一樣，專業的工作完成了，測試的有趣的藝術的生活才依附著慢慢長出來。
§ 01 · 從 google sheet 到 .com
過去幾年，所有的想法、釉藥配方、系列規劃，都被我丟在 google sheet 的各個分頁裡。想到就開新分頁，有的進入執行，有的在發想階段就夭折，更多的是無限期的 pending。
我想做一個跟外面介紹與分享自己的體驗與心得。用一個 Physical 的物體來呈現我對美對生活的想法。對一個白天的本業是前端工程師的人來說，最直線的介紹方式不是一份印出來的 portfolio PDF，是一個 deploy 完成的網站。(注意到這個邏輯時不免笑了一下。)
§ 02 · 名字確定下來
工作室的名字確認了：Earthscape，中文「埴角」。
候選名單裡掙扎過幾個——土角、陶逸、陶岬——最後 Earthscape 留下來，是因為它在英文裡藏著四個讀法：earthscape（地景）、earth scape（土的紋理）、earth’s cape（陶土的岬角）、escape（出走）。四件事其實是同一件事，這個我在 About 裡寫過。
中文選「埴角」是因為「埴」這個字。它出現在《道德經》「埏埴以為器，當其無，有器之用」這一段裡。「埏埴」是和泥的意思，「埴」單字指的是製陶用的黏土。「埴角」這兩個字並排在現代中文裡幾乎沒人用——這正是我喜歡它的原因：沒有預設的聯想，是個乾淨的、可以從零開始填內容的容器。
名字是種言靈。「Earthscape」存在的那一刻，它對應的器物就也得開始存在。
§ 03 · 第一天
今天沒有動到土。沒有揉、沒有捏、沒有燒。但 deploy 按鈕按下去之後，這個工作室從「自己的東西」變成了「可以被認識的東西」。
從這個周末開始，每件作品出窯的時候會有編號（ES · 2026 · CAPE-01 · …）、被登錄、拍照、收進這個檔案。
埴角從今天開始算第一天。
By day I’m a frontend engineer, so the most natural way for me to make this studio real is to deploy it.
20260527 — today, this studio had its first real address: earthscape-studio.com. After many back-and-forth rounds with Claude Opus 4.7, the deploy finally went through(thank you, AI, for teaching me how to buy a domain and stand up an environment). After that, it was just there.
Only a few prototype vases finished, two bisque pieces blown apart in the kiln — and yet the string earthscape-studio.com debuted first. It mirrors the rest of my life: the professional work gets done first, and then the testing, the curious, the artistic, the lived parts attach themselves to it and slowly grow out.
§ 01 · From a Google Sheet to a .com
For the past few years, every idea, glaze recipe, and series plan lived in tabs of a Google Sheet. A new tab each time something occurred to me — some made it into production, some died at the idea stage, most sat in indefinite pending.
I wanted a way to introduce myself, and to share what I’ve been thinking and making with the outside world — to present my view of beauty and of daily life through a physical object. For someone whose day job is frontend, the most direct form of introduction isn’t a portfolio PDF. It’s a deployed site.(I laughed when I noticed the logic.)
§ 02 · The name lands
The studio is called Earthscape — in Chinese, 埴角 (zhí jiǎo).
There was a shortlist — 土角, 陶逸, 陶岬 — but Earthscape stayed because the word holds four readings at once: earthscape (the landscape of earth), earth scape (the texture of earth), earth’s cape (the cape of clay), escape. Four things, all in the end the same thing — I unpack this in About.
The Chinese 埴角 was chosen for 「埴」 alone. It appears in the Dao De Jing line 「埏埴以為器，當其無，有器之用」 (“knead clay to form a vessel; it is the emptiness within that makes it useful”). The compound 埴角 is essentially absent from modern Chinese — which is precisely why I like it. No preset associations. A clean container to fill.
A name is a kind of 言靈 — a word-spirit. The moment Earthscape exists, the objects it should correspond to have to start existing too.
§ 03 · Day Zero
I didn’t touch clay today. No kneading, no shaping, no firing. But once that deploy button was pressed, this studio went from a thing of my own to a thing that can be known.
Starting this weekend, every piece that comes out of the kiln will get a number (ES · 2026 · CAPE-01 · …), logged, photographed, filed.
埴角 starts counting from today.