Aspire uses motifs from the iconic Meissen Porcelain Manufacturer’s famous Purple Onion tableware pattern. Aspire is the second in an ongoing series of works that explores the relationship between the historic and the contemporary through the deconstruction of traditional tableware patterns. The historic surface pattern is modernized with painterly brush strokes on 60 hand-thrown and hand-painted porcelain plates.

The design of each plate is both an abstraction and a highlight of the original tableware, highlighting pattern within pattern. The work's shift in scale from the familiar creates a dramatic shift in understanding. The viewer is directed to look closely at small details in the surface of the historic counterpart through each individual plate's painterly abstraction of the whole.

Materials: 60 hand-thrown and hand-painted porcelain plates with underglaze, glaze and 22 karat gold luster

Dimensions: 72h x 72w x 1.5d inches