Hopefully You Remember This
ceramic tiles, 2 channel video, transparencies
Hopefully You Remember This is a tile quilt and an experimental comic book constructed from 210 glazed ceramic tiles. Utilizing recalled domestic spaces and architectural language, intricately coded pictographs and schematic abstractions are used to map a fraught relationship. The quilt also functions as a map that navigates time and geographical space in 3 unique quadrants: San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong.
The entire piece contains 70 unique tile designs spread over a total of 210 physical ceramic glazed tiles. I created the designs in Illustrator and each unique design was silkscreened onto each tile. Each square tile measures 6”x 6”. When assembled together properly, the tile quilt spans the approximate size of a queen-sized quilt at roughly 97”x 88”x 8”.
The CRTs to both sides of the tile quilt contain animations derived from specific tiles within the larger quilt.
This project was made possible through the CalArts Summer Ceramic Residency in partnership with Mission Tile West.
Finished Glazed Ceramic Tile Quilt
Tiles after being fired and assembled into the final quilt orientation.
Final Digital Color Design
Estimated color based on glaze test fires.
Final Digital Black & White Linework
Designed in Illustrator over the course of a few weeks.
Quadrant Details
The tile quilt centers on three quadrants: San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong.
Each of these quadrants contains domestic spaces recreated from memory and objects associated with the time and place.
Quadrant #1: San Francisco
Quadrant #2: New York
Quadrant #3: Hong Kong
Installation Documentation
Originally installed in D301 Gallery at California Institute of the Arts.
Transparencies on the left.
Transparencies on the right.
Detail 01.
Detail 02.
Detail 03.
Show Poster.
Animated Sequences
Tile Animation 01
Preliminary Vector Animation 01
Tile Animation 02
Preliminary Vector Animation 02
NO END IN SIGHT
Group Exhibition CURATED BY DANIEL ALEJANDRO TREJO
VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS - 2022 GROUP EXHIBITION
“Clay production is perpetually moving from a finite craft towards a pluralistic field with increasing popularity in the context of contemporary visual culture. This expansion of the material allows for an abundance of possibilities for visual artists that are conceptually driven. With the erosion of material hierarchies established by institutional entities, the artists presented in this exhibition cultivate a broad aesthetic. This is ongoing discourse, and a method of agitating purist ideologies of clay and how they fit into the canon of contemporary ceramics. The limitations of building methods used in utilitarian objects, and the desire to navigate sculpture through a ceramic lens is tempting. “No End in Sight,” is a cross-disciplinary inquiry into contemporary clay, and its relationship with developing works that reconcile intertwined individual biographies, memories and environmental impact.”
FEATURED ARTISTS
Debra Broz, Cathy Lu, Paolo Mentasti, Cristina Tufiño, Jordan Wong
My tile quilt piece “Hopefully You Remember This”, 6 looping animations on monitors, and a modified cut of my short film “I Would’ve Been Happy” were displayed at Verge Center for the Arts as part of this group show.
