Degree Year
2019
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art
Advisor(s)
Kristina Paabus
Grayson Earle
Johnny W. Coleman
Keywords
Art, Critical race theory, Sculpture, Basketball, Plaster, Material, Afro-pessimism, Studio practice, Blackness, Race, Pompeii, Internment, Social death
Abstract
This research uses personal and theoretical frameworks to unpack paradoxical notions of Blackness in both it’s political and chromatic understandings as related to my studio practice. Jared Sexton posits the color Black as simultaneously all-consuming and incomprehensible; a necessarily contradictory state. I utilize this concept in addition to material histories that span from Pompeii to modern day New York City and art historical references as foundational explanations of my work. Written in both formal and intimate voices, this text is an extension of my studio practice, situated at the nexus of the realization and subversion of binary states of existence.
Repository Citation
Burgel, Octavia M., "The Realness or, Liquid Smoke or, This is What the F••k Boutta Happen" (2019). Honors Papers. 118.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/118
