Study for Adam Style Urn (Edition)
Hydrocal plaster
8in x 4in x 4in /
2025
This handmade plaster urn is part of a small edition that explore the beauty, but also the darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in colonial architecture of the United States.
The urn is generally understood as a symbol for life and death. Classical ornament is embedded in the psyche of people all over the world—an artifact of colonialism that still defines places today. Artworks like this one come out of my own internalized architectural Eurocentrism, and my disdain for this very attraction to notions of European ideals of beauty.
For me, making these architectural details freehand, is a sort of re-remembering and reworking these harmful narratives, and rewriting the narrative to be more relevant to us today.
Please note this urn is solid plaster and is not functional. Pedestal is sold separately.
Hydrocal plaster
8in x 4in x 4in /
2025
This handmade plaster urn is part of a small edition that explore the beauty, but also the darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in colonial architecture of the United States.
The urn is generally understood as a symbol for life and death. Classical ornament is embedded in the psyche of people all over the world—an artifact of colonialism that still defines places today. Artworks like this one come out of my own internalized architectural Eurocentrism, and my disdain for this very attraction to notions of European ideals of beauty.
For me, making these architectural details freehand, is a sort of re-remembering and reworking these harmful narratives, and rewriting the narrative to be more relevant to us today.
Please note this urn is solid plaster and is not functional. Pedestal is sold separately.
Hydrocal plaster
8in x 4in x 4in /
2025
This handmade plaster urn is part of a small edition that explore the beauty, but also the darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in colonial architecture of the United States.
The urn is generally understood as a symbol for life and death. Classical ornament is embedded in the psyche of people all over the world—an artifact of colonialism that still defines places today. Artworks like this one come out of my own internalized architectural Eurocentrism, and my disdain for this very attraction to notions of European ideals of beauty.
For me, making these architectural details freehand, is a sort of re-remembering and reworking these harmful narratives, and rewriting the narrative to be more relevant to us today.
Please note this urn is solid plaster and is not functional. Pedestal is sold separately.