Sublimation (Black Star)
from The Triumph of Romanticism
12" x 12"
acrylic on canvas
2016
This work was painted over and recreated into Carnival Flare from Cannibal Fare in 2023.
Exhibitions
Houston, Texas, Visitation, January 14, 2017
Houston, Texas, November Open Studio, November 10, 2018
 

Sublimation (Black Star) features the logo of BBC News, framed within a black square and overlaid on a star. The composition is minimal, institutional, and globally familiar. The BBC presents itself as balanced, authoritative, and restrained. Its power lies in tone—measured, composed, and quietly persuasive.


Within the logic of Sublimation, this canvas reveals how neutrality itself becomes a narrative. The logo is not just a brand—it is a filter. A mechanism that transforms global complexity into editorial clarity. The black star marks the chromatic zone, anchoring the work within the series’ visual structure.


This is not a critique of BBC News. It is a portrait of its function. A system that refines multiplicity into coherence, and coherence into trust.