ESSAY

Research the global trade networks that made porcelain a luxury good.
Create a visual or digital map showing:

  • routes

  • wealth flows

  • colonization impacts

  • cultural exchanges

Finally, analyze how Lugo’s work re-enters this trade history by inserting diasporic subjects into a once-colonial object. Choose a Lugo vessel or painting that features a cultural or historical figure (Billie Holiday, Matthew Henson, Caroline LeCount, Kendrick Lamar, etc).

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  • By Jordana Moore Saggese (2014)
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