Familiarity / 熟悉

Long civilisational contact with a material can create the feeling that it is already understood. The conversation separates inherited familiarity from active knowledge: recognition of a medium's conventional forms is not the same as perceiving what else it can become.

与一种材料长期共处，会制造“已经理解”的感觉。对话区分了继承来的熟悉与主动知识：认出媒介的惯常形式，并不等于感知它还能成为什么。

Expert authority / 专家权威

Education and specialist language condense valuable historical knowledge, yet they can also standardise perception. When expertise claims the right to decide what a material should be, difference appears irrational before it is examined.

教育与专业语言凝聚了重要历史知识，但也可能把感知标准化。当专业知识宣称自己有权决定材料“应该是什么”，差异还未被理解就先被判定为不合理。

Novelty as method / 新颖作为方法

Ceramics is treated not as a closed tradition but as one historically accumulated mode among many possible material expressions. Novelty matters because it tests the limits of recognition and reopens questions that familiarity has made invisible.

陶瓷并非封闭传统，而是众多材料表达中经历史累积形成的一种模式。新颖的重要性，在于测试识别的边界，并重新打开被熟悉感遮蔽的问题。