Sonya Blesofsky
Shadow Urn III, 2025
Charcoal on paper
8 x 6 inches

This charcoal drawing is part of a series exploring the beauty, and darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in Georgian and Federal architecture. This small charcoal drawing is based on an urn seen in the shadows of an old photograph of Robert and James Adam interiors.

Classical ornament is embedded in the psyche of people all over the world—an artifact of colonialism that still defines places today. Artworks like this one come out of my own internalized architectural Eurocentrism, and my disdain for this very attraction to notions of European ideals of beauty.

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