Ceramic, Found vase, hand built column, 25”x10”x10”, 2006
This body of work was started after a three week trip to China in 2005 and a later lecture about Chinoiseries ceramics. The following text is from a statement I wrote in 2006 that seems more poignant in this day and age than when it was written.
Chinoiseries are European decorative works produced under the influence of Chinese art in the 17th and 18th centuries. At that time the Chinese also started making works that catered to European tastes. It is this crosspollination of ideas that most interests me about this period. Through the exchange of ideas, each respective culture becomes a little more like the other. Chinoiserie ceramics could be considered an artistic crystallization of what we now call globalization.