Sentences with phrase «black oilstick»

Demonstrating Ligon's acclaimed strategy of pushing appropriated text into abstraction, Stranger Study # 11 is the result of the systematic overlaying of stenciled passages from Baldwin's essay with black oilstick until they coalesce into near illegibility.

While the choice of black oilstick visualizes «blackness», Ligon's use of coal both obscures the text and imbues the work with a host of ambivalent undertones: «I am drawn to because of all of the contradictory readings it engenders.