Worcester Imari is a ceramic wall installation composed of 99 hand-painted earthenware plates surfaced with glazes and 22 karat gold luster. The intricate patterns and colors painted on the plates comprise Hatch’s contemporary interpretation of a pair of eighteenth-century painted vases with lids belonging to the Frances and Emory Cocke Collection at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.

Through shift in scale and a decontextualization of the historic source imagery, the Imari patterning becomes a contemporary counterpart to the original.

Materials: 99 hand-painted earthenware plates with underglaze, glaze and 22 karat gold luster

Dimensions: 90h x 110w x 1.5d inches