Everyday China

My drawing series, Everyday China, are charcoal self-portraits look at class structure through family upbringing, questioning my connection in name to the Haviland China industry. They wonder, visually, what my life may have been like if I had been raised using fine bone china daily. They also mark a more indulgent use of visual pattern within my work, as a formal element and a symbol of the domestic realm and bygone eras. These dark images, mired in a sea of repeated pattern, become
an obsessive dance with materialism, daily ritual, identity, and class structure.