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Black Art in an Anti-Black World
D. Soyini Madison & Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Assignment: Make a drawing and transform all your liquids and your shapes into actions moving through a tunnel while reading the text below.
Timed Drawing:
Improvisation
Text: Read while drawing. Use materials of your choice.
Score:
Find a thorough way
Enough dispossession
Only environmental liberation
How can we as clandestine people hide our direction.
Movement,
Blackness Magnitude over direction
Extensive
Disorientation
Transform your liquids and these shapes into an emotion.
I mean the liquid in your body.
It’s who I am. I’m passionate and emotional, wild and delicate, precise and haunting.
Heavy handed and a soft hand
The specter
Invent
Capture how we move
Use what we capture
Perceive/be the monumentality and the quotidian
I wanted to find a name for it, I wanted to find a rubric.
I needed to find a method to produce
Scalar Vs vector
Magnitude vs direction
Distance vs time
I realized distillation was just the thing I needed to see how to think
From my studio in Newburgh, NY
Just a few drawings I look at often:
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