Kahlil Robert Irving, 100's, 2018

Kahlil Robert Irving: My name is Kahlil Robert Irving, and I'm an artist that lives and works in the United States. 

Most people who see my work think that all of these things are found. The whole sculpture is constructed by me in the studio, so everything that you may think may be a found object is produced by me in the studio. 

So the application of the overglaze enamels and image transfers are first constructed by me in the computer, printed out by a special printer, and then I adhere and fire every layer of the surface on the sculpture myself. This work was fired about twelve to sixteen times to be able to add all the images, all the color, and all the metallics that you see present.

I am interested in the history of decorative arts in relationship to its colonialist and oppressive domination over the world's cultures. Thinking about historical ceramic objects and also how those traded or industrially produced objects around the world, Asia and Europe, have found their way through the lineage of colonialism, and an imperialist order from European white supremacy around the world and found their way to the United States.