Oval Sculptured Plaster Panel I & II
Lime plaster and mesh on plywood
10in x 6in x 2in each /
2025
These handmade lime plaster panels are 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 these works is a Jacobson & Co 1913 catalogue of plaster ornament found in the Building Technology Heritage Library digital archives.
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 is sold as a pair and ships ready-to-hang.
Lime plaster and mesh on plywood
10in x 6in x 2in each /
2025
These handmade lime plaster panels are 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 these works is a Jacobson & Co 1913 catalogue of plaster ornament found in the Building Technology Heritage Library digital archives.
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 is sold as a pair and ships ready-to-hang.
Lime plaster and mesh on plywood
10in x 6in x 2in each /
2025
These handmade lime plaster panels are 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 these works is a Jacobson & Co 1913 catalogue of plaster ornament found in the Building Technology Heritage Library digital archives.
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 is sold as a pair and ships ready-to-hang.