
On Charlotte Hodes’s DOMESTIC CACOPHONY ceramic vases, there are vacuum cleaners, computer parts, a sofa, and a coffee table strewn with the detritus of domestic life. Such images are teasingly thrown in among the richly decorated surfaces and classical imagery more traditionally befitting decorated vases. Hodes’s work is a synthesis of fine and decorative arts and she is interested in the interplay of utility and ornament.