Date of Award
Spring 5-20-2022
Degree Name
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Restricted
Abstract
Presenting non-seeing is paradoxical. This thesis explores the meaning of presenting images of people that are not clear or readable. In my practice I obscure surveillance images of people at gas stations in black neighborhoods as a political act. Using my practice as grounding, I explore how abstraction, translation between media, and referencing pixelated images can reorder relationships between viewer and surveilled people, provoke reflection upon how they see people in public space, and disrupt the reiteration of racial power structures.
Mentor/Primary Advisor
Cheryl Wassenaar
Recommended Citation
Lee, Jordan, "The Unseen Surveilled Subject" (2022). Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers. 93.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bfa/93