This will be a quick post, but I wanted to pop in briefly to talk about one of my newest pastimes: pour painting! Pour painting is a technique in which acrylic paint is mixed with some type of pouring medium (such as paint additive and water) and then poured onto a canvas in a variety…
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Wangechi Mutu: Subverting Social Hierarchy through Caricaturized Imitation
Cut-out images of a dark skinned animal eye and a pair of pouting pink human lips are pasted onto an image of a pale pink, pearly seashell. A bird wing protrudes from the back of the creature’s seashell head, which rests on a neck composed of unrecognizable mechanical parts and wires. . . Such is…