Pattern (dis)Placement aims to destabilize the origin of culture and reconstruct Homi Bhabha’s “the third space of in-betweeness”: a site of cultural translation, where locations of cultures are negotiated and new narratives are adapted and hybridized. In this body of work, Esfahani focuses on the Willow Pattern as a constructed cultural fable and simultaneously emphasizes and disrupts familiar collected objects in order to dissolve traditional boundaries between cultures.
My Grandmother Had One, Mixed media on collected ceramic plates, 2019
My Grandmother Had One, detail, Mixed media on collected ceramic plates, 2019
My Grandmother Had One, detail, Mixed media on collected ceramic plates, 2019
My Grandmother Had One, detail, Mixed media on collected ceramic plates, 2019
Variation on Willow Pattern Birds 1-25, custom ceramic decals on ceramic plates, 2019
Variation on Willow Pattern Birds 1-25, custom ceramic decals on ceramic plates, 2019
Variation on Willow Pattern Birds 1-25, custom ceramic decals on ceramic plates, 2019
Variation on Willow Pattern Birds 1-25, custom ceramic decals on ceramic plates, 2019
Birds: Pattern (dis)Placed, 3D printed Resin, 2019
Birds: Pattern (dis)Placed, 3D printed Resin, 2019
Birds: Pattern (dis)Placed, 3D printed Resin, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Fence, glass paint on photograph, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Pagoda ,glass paint on photograph, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Three Men on Bridge, glass paint on photograph, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Two Birds, glass paint on photograph, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Weeping Willow, glass paint on photograph, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Boat, glass paint on photograph, 2019
Seven Must Have Elements of Willow Pattern: Orange Tree, glass paint on photograph, 2019
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