“Appropriate” Antique Japanese screen calligraphy painting

Unpainted Japanese folding screen (c.1950)

Lucas Perez, Appropriate, 2017, antique folding screen, DayGlo Pigment

Another Shot

Shot with the brush

The mark was 12 feet long!

Still drying

I used an antique Japanese folding screen (c.1950) as a contemporary surface with a history, to mark a proclamation of an ideological descent to the traditions from which my calligraphic skill arose. By doing this I want to re-examine current conversations around cultural appropriation, that don’t account for the fuzzy hybrid identities and practices of post-globalized culture.