Despite the immense and undeniable global success he acquired throughout his musical career, Michael Jackson\u2019s personal life was constantly plagued in scrutiny by media coverage on his racial identity, gender, and sexuality. Due to his vitiligo\u2014a genetic skin condition that gives the appearance of a patchier, paler skin tone\u2014many critiqued that Jackson tried to erase his blackness by bleaching his own skin. Through my creation of a phonograph, I wanted to demonstrate that Jackson contrastingly prided himself in not only his identity as an African- American man, but ultimately his craft as a performing artist. With three CDs to accompany my record player, I based each painting on \u201cBlack or White\u201d, \u201cRemember the Time\u201d, and \u201cHeal the World\u201d respectively\u2014all being music videos from Jackson\u2019s Dangerous album where he openly showed himself embracing a stance against racial inequality. As the phonograph was the first device to record and play back music, I think certain parallels can be drawn to how Jackson himself was the first to break many barriers in the world of music. Using boxes, paper, and mini hardware tools from around my house, I was able to create this sentimental object as a tribute to the late King of Pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12382,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[107,39],"class_list":["post-12381","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-1","tag-first-year-online","tag-memory"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n