Made In China
Letterpress photopolymer print on handmade watermarked cotton paper, 11 x 14”, edition of 25, 2017
Video documentation: Raoul Olou
Video Description: Flora holds the artwork to the light to reveal the watermark: “ 中国景德镇 Made in China”.
Artist Statement
“Made in China” is an edition that uses memory to explore intimacy, in(visibility), time and movement, intergenerational artifacts, and the paradox of precious functional objects.
This bowl comes to me wrapped and protected, travelling between time, spaces, and generations. To hold an object that embodies several layers of memory, and to access this history requires me to unwrap and proceed bravely with the understanding that it can be broken.
To honour an object’s function is to know that it can be damaged and its intention is to be used, to be of service, to hold, to give, to be replaced.