Name | Sheldon Bess |
Class | MFA 2021 |
Materials | Corian, MDF, and steel |
Dimensions | 15 x 15 x 75 in / 381 x 381 x 1905 mm |
Neoclassical columns originating from 18th Century American Federalist architecture are specters of a constructed power built from histories of the hunt and the commodification of the Other. These histories constantly haunt us with the homogeneous narrative of white supremacy and capitalism. Postcolumn is a manufactured architectural ruin that employs CNC ornamentation on a pseudo stone material to materialize the inflection point where the decline of the American Empire narrative meets the incline of emancipated otherness—a consciousness that exists free for itself.