Created during the recent COVID-19 quarantine, Progress is the first sculptural wall installation comprised of 57 hand-thrown, porcelain discs. The disc provides an additional dimensional format for re-contextualizing historic imagery and pattern.

The front surface of Progress is a magnification and reworking of an 18th century Indian weaving. By increasing the scale of the textile, it is transformed into a hand-painted, highly digitized, and decidedly contemporary pattern. Juxtaposing the rigid graphic design of the work’s face is a painted malachite pattern that adorns each disc’s profile.

Malachite, considered a powerful metaphysical stone, is often used for healing, positive transformation, and achieving harmony and balance. Much like the act of weaving itself, where each thread contributes to the ultimate pattern, each component of Progress is essential to the wholeness of the final work.

The slightly concave discs range in both size and depth. The width and depth of each of the discs decreases from left to right, exposing more and more of the painted profile of each disc, taking advantage of the sculptural disc form as a three-dimensional painting surface. The experience of the work changes as the work is viewed from different angles.

Year: 2020

Materials: 57 Hand-cast porcelain forms with hand-painted glaze and underglaze

Dimensions: 52Hh x 51w x 3d inches