The World Stripped Bare and Flat

Title: The World Stripped Bare and Flat
Year: 2017
Media: Bone China, Wood, Metal, Sheetrock,
Dimension: 8’ x 16” x 12’
Description: wooden table with decorative objects

The  sculpture installations, An Inherent View of the World (2015) and The World Stripped Bare and Flat (2017), displace the cultural product its place and time of origin, both in terms of ethnicity and labor. A multi-year process of collecting mass-produced collectible porcelain objects from around the world share equal space with hand-carved wooden animal figures, brass cast ornaments, and metal crafted goblets. These objects are displayed on top of a table fashioned out of prefabricated industrial material expanding the relationship between craft, art, and design. Conceptually, the work considers the cultural ideology, historical hierarchy, economic and market dichotomies that produced these objects. Through a series of physical, material, and conceptual operations, domestic wares are stripped of their passive functions, transforming ornaments into vehicles of aesthetic value. Their design and decorative patterns serve as indexical references to the social class that both collects and dictates their production and distribution.

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