shaina christine ereti
student statement
In response to Ariel Rene Jackson’s lyrical film essay, 'Doubt & Imagination', I created a series of photographs focusing on Black American pottery full of life and, eventually, losing that life. Colonoware and the findings of two archaeologists heavily influenced Jackson’s film and I wanted my response to reflect those elements, so I used a pottery pot as the subject of my photographs. I, also, painted the pot with geometric patterns, emulating African American pottery. I wanted to show imagination and doubt in my response because Jackson is asking the audience an important question. How much doubt and how much imagination should one use to decipher the past? I wanted to use my imagination by creating photographs where life and color are overbearingly at the front and use doubt to create photographs where the pot was covered in dirt and mud because I do not know if the pottery was surrounded by life or despair. In my last image, Lost and Ponder, I shattered the pot and took a picture of the shards to represent the end of knowing what the pot knew and how others should interpret how it was when it was used.
shaina christine ereti
texas woman’s university
bachelor of studio art candidate