Imperial Garden layers British military symbolism with East Asian decorative traditions to create a landscape where beauty conceals intrusion.
Cherry blossom masks an advancing threat. Willow Pattern architecture burns. Goldfish become refugees. A lone gunboat occupies the harbour while fragments of culture drift through an increasingly uncertain world.
The work explores colonial ambition through the visual language of reappropriated weapons, plastic fish-tank decorations and altered popular domestic tableware decoration—objects that often outlive the histories that they quietly acknowledge.
It is a landscape suspended between serenity and catastrophe, much as a fish is suspended in water.
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• 1.25″ (3.18 cm) thick poly-cotton blend canvas • Canvas fabric weight: 10.15 +/- 0.74 oz./yd.² (344 g/m² +/- 25g/m²) • Fade-resistant • Hand-stretched over solid wood stretcher bars • Mounting brackets included • Blank product sourced from the US, Canada, Europe, UK, or Australia
