Features Overview
The artist in ancestral regalia.
Ancestral Regalia
The artist wears an unfired porcelain St. Andrew’s Cross breast shield. This evokes both the colonial period and the Confederacy.
Wearing appropriated blue and white.
Blue and White Millstone.
This large blue and white porcelain flowered bead brings to mind the appropriation of Chinese porcelain by colonial powers for luxury consumption
Colonial goggles
Colonial Goggles
These goggles, the lenses which limit our sight, are anchored by Whiteness at the bottom right. Empire, Manifest Destiny, Virtual Reality, Terra Nullitus, a Cross, and appropriated blue and white decoration are the other limiting lenses.