Click below to hear the visual description for Sami Schalk’s #QuarantineLooks: Embracing the Fabulously Mundane and Becoming a Pleasure Artist: Pleasure is the Point. The works are described clockwise starting at the installation’s top left. There are two rows, each with three images:
Below is the visual description text for Sami Schalk’s #QuarantineLooks: Embracing the Fabulously Mundane and Becoming a Pleasure Artist: Pleasure is the Point:
Sami Schalk, a fat light skin Black woman with short curly hair and glasses, stands by 3 green dumpsters in front of a brick wall with trees in the far background. She wears a sleeveless cornflower blue formal gown and a mask covered in large blue sequins. She is shown mid-action, hands in the air, throwing a bag of garbage over her shoulder toward the dumpster behind her.
Sami Schalk, a fat light skin Black woman with short curly hair, smiles, looking slightly to the left in a medium shot from the chest up. She sits in a peacock style wicker chair wearing a faux leather and mesh bralette, a leather kitten mask, and red lipstick.
Sami Schalk, a fat light skin Black woman with short curly hair and glasses stands at a blue gas station pump putting gas into a light blue SUV. She wears a full length silver formal gown with off the shoulder sleeve cutouts and a matching silver sequin face mask.
Sami Schalk, a fat light skin Black woman with short curly hair and glasses, poses sitting in a rust orange chair in front of a dark floral background. She sits in the chair looking up and smirking slightly at the camera. She wears a dark floral bra with straps over the chest, fishnet stockings, and a black velvet duster with fur trim collar and sleeves.
Sami Schalk, a fat light skin Black woman with short curly pink hair, poses in an empty parking lot leaning over the handle of a grocery cart. She wears a long sleeve, multi-colored sparkly jumpsuit and a pink sequin face mask. Though her face is covered, it’s clear she is smiling as she looks up toward the camera.
Sami Schalk, a fat light skin Black woman with short curly hair and glasses stands in front of a dark floral background. Shown from the thighs up, she poses with one hand to her chest and her head turned to the left with a slight smile. She wears a black lace cutout bodysuit with black straps at the waist and hips underneath a black lace duster.