Oval Sculptured Panel II
Charcoal and gesso on paper
12in x 14in /
2025
This charcoal drawing is part of a series exploring the beauty, but also the darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in colonial architecture of the United States. The source material for this pair of drawings comes from the Jacobeson & Co 1913 catalogue of plaster ornament.
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, drawing architectural details, is a sort of re-remembering and reworking these harmful narratives, and rewriting the narrative to be more relevant to us today.
Ships flat packed.
Charcoal and gesso on paper
12in x 14in /
2025
This charcoal drawing is part of a series exploring the beauty, but also the darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in colonial architecture of the United States. The source material for this pair of drawings comes from the Jacobeson & Co 1913 catalogue of plaster ornament.
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, drawing architectural details, is a sort of re-remembering and reworking these harmful narratives, and rewriting the narrative to be more relevant to us today.
Ships flat packed.
Charcoal and gesso on paper
12in x 14in /
2025
This charcoal drawing is part of a series exploring the beauty, but also the darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in colonial architecture of the United States. The source material for this pair of drawings comes from the Jacobeson & Co 1913 catalogue of plaster ornament.
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, drawing architectural details, is a sort of re-remembering and reworking these harmful narratives, and rewriting the narrative to be more relevant to us today.
Ships flat packed.