Portfolio > Tzetzegov Erasures 2009

Included in the installation is a series of plates, some are porcelain blanks that I purchased from the Lomonosov Factory, others are pieces from the 1900’s to 1940 owned and used by families all over Europe. The revolutionary propaganda porcelain depicted an idealized vision of the State. My plates depict a more realistic history of that time. The interrogation and execution records of Tzetzegov are glazed onto the plates and covered with thermochromic glazes. The plates are computer timed to heat and cool. When cool, the images on the plates will be covered with black block out. When warmed slightly, the black will disappear, revealing the historical truth.