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A criss-crossed pattern used to fill in sections of a drawing to distinguish them from each other. |
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On the one hand, the cross-hatching of paint in The Privilege of the Roof and The Wisdom of Concrete resembles actual explosions, but on the other, this allusion to physical violence is indistinguishable from the semiotic violence that the paintings manifest between the signifying systems of abstract art and architectural rendering. From this earthly coil, he's progressed To the Art Institute of the Blessed, Where he works with a will, And a sharp Angel's quill, cross-hatching Saint Peter's dress. Far from situating black feminism in singular locations, Boyce Davies marks out a "politics of location" as she both identifies and theorizes agency in relation to the cross-hatching themes of geographic place and displacement, social and economic positionality, ethnic, racial, gender and sexual boundaries, and the experiences of (im)migration and alienness. |
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