17. "Watermelon"
Joshua Hashemzadeh
RMSr.2 - Watermelon
1949 - 2020
Mixed media on a vintage postcard
6 x 4 "
Sourcing language from the postcard letter's original sender, the phrase "A Wonderful Trip" is depicted in a kitsch "eastern" style font. Though inspired by a Chinese fast food place down the street from my first apartment, this piece contemplates the ways in which cultural iconoclasm at large becomes embedded and erased from a landscape.
As a first-generation American raised by Muslim immigrants originally from Iran, I think a lot about the journeys taken in life. I feel these diasporic visual motifs though problematic at times, offer paradoxical feelings of inclusion and nostalgia for a passage taken before my time.
Intimate in size, this artwork's composition draws reference from various motifs throughout the 20th-century art historical canon. The layered object alludes to some of the artist's creative influences such as On Kawara, Ed Ruscha, & Mel Bochner. As overlapping layers of resin, glass, and acrylic paint intersect, they create 3D effects that offer diorama-like viewing experiences that play with light & space.
Joshua Hashemzadeh
RMSr.2 - Watermelon
1949 - 2020
Mixed media on a vintage postcard
6 x 4 "
Sourcing language from the postcard letter's original sender, the phrase "A Wonderful Trip" is depicted in a kitsch "eastern" style font. Though inspired by a Chinese fast food place down the street from my first apartment, this piece contemplates the ways in which cultural iconoclasm at large becomes embedded and erased from a landscape.
As a first-generation American raised by Muslim immigrants originally from Iran, I think a lot about the journeys taken in life. I feel these diasporic visual motifs though problematic at times, offer paradoxical feelings of inclusion and nostalgia for a passage taken before my time.
Intimate in size, this artwork's composition draws reference from various motifs throughout the 20th-century art historical canon. The layered object alludes to some of the artist's creative influences such as On Kawara, Ed Ruscha, & Mel Bochner. As overlapping layers of resin, glass, and acrylic paint intersect, they create 3D effects that offer diorama-like viewing experiences that play with light & space.
Joshua Hashemzadeh
RMSr.2 - Watermelon
1949 - 2020
Mixed media on a vintage postcard
6 x 4 "
Sourcing language from the postcard letter's original sender, the phrase "A Wonderful Trip" is depicted in a kitsch "eastern" style font. Though inspired by a Chinese fast food place down the street from my first apartment, this piece contemplates the ways in which cultural iconoclasm at large becomes embedded and erased from a landscape.
As a first-generation American raised by Muslim immigrants originally from Iran, I think a lot about the journeys taken in life. I feel these diasporic visual motifs though problematic at times, offer paradoxical feelings of inclusion and nostalgia for a passage taken before my time.
Intimate in size, this artwork's composition draws reference from various motifs throughout the 20th-century art historical canon. The layered object alludes to some of the artist's creative influences such as On Kawara, Ed Ruscha, & Mel Bochner. As overlapping layers of resin, glass, and acrylic paint intersect, they create 3D effects that offer diorama-like viewing experiences that play with light & space.
