Sourcing Owen Jones’ “The Grammar of Chinese Ornament," Prelude reworks an 18th century Chinese pattern designed for the European export market to address cultural fusion and diffusion. This installation of triangular shaped wall tiles creates a large scale, three-dimensional ceramic lenticular. The surfaces of the tiles are hand-painted with underglaze and glaze over a grid of 28 porcelain triangular bricks, finished with hand-painted gold luster.

From the left perspective the design is rendered in a deep teal and black motif while the right perspective continues the motif in brilliant gold luster and satiny black.

Materials: 28 hand cast porcelain tiles with hand painted glaze and underglaze and 24 karat gold luster

Dimensions: 40h x 50w x 2.5d inches