Simplicity is surprisingly unsimple. In our increasingly complex, instant and demanding world, simplicity requires practice and cultivation, within oneself before without. To Zhong Fu Chan, the pursuit of simplicity (not an ersatz buzzword or signifier of it) is what consumes his work. There's a desirable unpredictability to the woodfire kiln that tantalizes us, and, by ways, drives the journey towards reticence, humility, austerity, and non-fussiness.