The World Stripped Bare and Flat

The installation incorporates three bodies of work: An Inherent View of the World (2017), As Above So Below (2015), and Imperial China (2017). The works interrelate my current research on the China Trade, the development of globalization and world markets spurred by the 18th-century trade conducted by the Dutch (VOC) and the British (The East India Company) from China, Japan, Africa, to the Americas. The work examines the colonial legacy inherently in the dynamic of trade which is still apparent in the housewares, decorative objects, and chinaware being produced today.