Urn with Festoon
Lime plaster, wood lath and plywood
11.5in x 27.5in x 2.5in total
2 panels. Left: 11.5 in x 16in x 2.5in / Right: 11.5in x 10.25in x 2.5in
2024
This handmade lime plaster panel 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 urn is a mourning vessel—is a symbol of death and grief, but also eternal life and hope. This urn and festoon pattern is loosely based on a pattern from the Architectural Decorating Co of Chicago's book of ornament from 1909. 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.
This artwork ships ready-to-hang. Please note this artwork is traditional lime plaster and wood, and weighs ~6lbs / 2.75kg.
Lime plaster, wood lath and plywood
11.5in x 27.5in x 2.5in total
2 panels. Left: 11.5 in x 16in x 2.5in / Right: 11.5in x 10.25in x 2.5in
2024
This handmade lime plaster panel 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 urn is a mourning vessel—is a symbol of death and grief, but also eternal life and hope. This urn and festoon pattern is loosely based on a pattern from the Architectural Decorating Co of Chicago's book of ornament from 1909. 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.
This artwork ships ready-to-hang. Please note this artwork is traditional lime plaster and wood, and weighs ~6lbs / 2.75kg.
Lime plaster, wood lath and plywood
11.5in x 27.5in x 2.5in total
2 panels. Left: 11.5 in x 16in x 2.5in / Right: 11.5in x 10.25in x 2.5in
2024
This handmade lime plaster panel 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 urn is a mourning vessel—is a symbol of death and grief, but also eternal life and hope. This urn and festoon pattern is loosely based on a pattern from the Architectural Decorating Co of Chicago's book of ornament from 1909. 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.
This artwork ships ready-to-hang. Please note this artwork is traditional lime plaster and wood, and weighs ~6lbs / 2.75kg.