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Media: rabbit skin glue, synthetic water-soluble polyvinyl acetate emulsion, dry paint pigment for both the egg tempera, encaustic and oil paint.
the paper bag test portraits (2011-2022) are a series of paintings on brown paper bags on the perception of standardized ideas of beauty within Diaspora communities. This color-based hierarchy, which continues to operate within societies worldwide in spite of the demise of Western colonialism, could be defined by the brown paper bag test once used in the United States to determine one’s fitness to enter certain department stores: skin lighter than a brown paper grocery bag could pass, while darker failed, a hush-hush practice that continues to prevail today in many societies. |
