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My project for the project focused on presentation. While listening to this, it’s important that you not look at the artwork for it, because it was presented alone without any visuals other than a radio.
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King Seppy Art review
The most interesting art that I saw were the bead sculptures by King Seppy (Thaddeus LaCrette) in the Ada gallery. The millions of beads that covered the bodies of wooden manikins resemble traditional African royalty garments. However, the male manikin’s clothing was covered in the flags of European countries that had participated in the slave trade. Chains fall from his neck to his feet. A female wooden manikin stands nearby. She is also clad in an ornate bead dress reflective of royal African garments.
The bead dresses are vibrant, and the sheer amount of labor that went into them is staggering. While the two ornately dressed manikins are what initially draws the eye, what enamored me was a tree made from an ocean of beads atop a real tree trunk painted black. The combination of traditional African art with plastic beads creates an incredibly interesting conversation. Usually when a traditional dress is made out of cheap plastic the assumption is that a company has ripped from a culture a hollow representation of their design, made in china, then worn by a child in around Halloween and thrown away. However, the plastic creations by King Seppy are earnest and authentic. He uses the materials around him the same way people hundreds of years prior had.
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