1)TRUTH 'What Cannot Be Erased' in dialogue with Kara Walker
The Object
This wearable sculpture contains a fragment of black blue-and-white ceramic embedded within an irregular gold structure.
Only a small portion of the original image remains visible. The fragment is not restored or completed. It is held in place as it is — incomplete, exposed, and historically charged.
Material
Gold does not function here as ornament or luxury. It acts as a frame that reveals the fragment and directs attention toward what remains.
Blue-and-white ceramics circulated through early global trade networks, moving along the same routes as gold, resources and people. These objects carried aesthetic value, but were inseparable from the economic systems that enabled their movement.
Within the ring, the fragment exists as object, artifact and trace at the same time.
Core Idea
For centuries gold functioned as a measure of power, wealth and empire, sustained through systems of extraction and colonial expansion.
Post-Colonial Gold shifts that measure.
Value is no longer located in the material, but in what the object carries — histories, memory and human experience.
Meaning
Objects often appear neutral or decorative. Yet many circulated through systems shaped by power and inequality.
By isolating a fragment within gold, the sculpture makes those layers visible. The object does not resolve them. It holds them in place.
In Dialogue with Kara Walker
Kara Walker (BLOG) exposes how visual culture carries the structures of colonial history. Her work reveals how refinement and beauty can coexist with violence and domination.
This sculpture operates within that tension. The ceramic fragment appears familiar and decorative, yet its isolation within gold redirects attention to the systems that enabled its circulation.
What appears refined does not erase what it contains.
Within Post-Colonial Gold
Each wearable sculpture embodies a human value.
Gold no longer measures worth. It reveals what has been overlooked.
Across the series, value shifts from material to meaning.
Artist Reflection
The fragment is not repaired. It remains incomplete.
Gold does not restore it. It exposes it.