Highlighting the visual brilliance of an 18th century Chinese textile, Verse, a hand-painted ceramic wall installation is a gilded deconstruction of historic pattern. Like the export porcelains of the same era, fabric and Chinese motifs were coveted and celebrated. In Verse the opulence of the 18th century is represented in gold overtaking and marbling the original fabric pattern creating a new experience of the familiar.

Comprised of 54 earthenware hand-painted plates, the glazed surface becomes a fragmented canvas for Hatch’s delicate, painterly re-rendering of a blue and white lidded vase, sourced from an 18th century French watercolor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Surrounded by a shimmering 11 karat gold luster background, Verse simultaneously deconstructs the past through a shimmering, painterly expression of the present.

Materials: 54 hand-painted earthenware plates with underglaze, glaze and 22 karat gold luster

Dimensions: 90w x 60h x 1.5d inches