Remnants is an ongoing project that looks into tchotchkes—porcelain items left in thrift stores or antique
shops. I approach tchotchkes as found objects and as a source of material. Through fragmentation and
extraction of the original materiality and through reassembling porcelains together to create new artifacts,
a simulacra results that is distinctive from its original function and context. This project considers the
porcelain tchotchkes through Walter Benjamin’s concept of ruins: what survives and what remains are
ghostly experiences, out of place and out of context, their sacred notion is lost, only melancholies
alienated from the here and the now remain.
shops. I approach tchotchkes as found objects and as a source of material. Through fragmentation and
extraction of the original materiality and through reassembling porcelains together to create new artifacts,
a simulacra results that is distinctive from its original function and context. This project considers the
porcelain tchotchkes through Walter Benjamin’s concept of ruins: what survives and what remains are
ghostly experiences, out of place and out of context, their sacred notion is lost, only melancholies
alienated from the here and the now remain.
Finding the Baroque
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