is part of Whitney Biennial 2024:
Even Better Than the Real Thing and is presented outside on the Whitney's Floor 5 terrace as the inaugural Hyundai Terrace Commission. See more here
Hyper shapes: These shapes are embedded in my practice the way they are embedded in my thoughts and love for black movement.
I live and expand through these geometries.
It's about expressing my understanding of how movement, space, scale and distance inform my perception of world building in both big and small ways.
Also, perception is not an automatic process; it is created, tuned, composed over time. It made sense to turn this piece into a time based work unfolding my conscious and unconscious perceptions of black liberation movements at every scale. From the molecular to the material to the phenomenological.
If qualities of space influence our minds and bodies then how can I make a space of interaction to that holds histories of black motions in the highest regard.
Perception
Hold
The hold
Geography
Liquid
Distance
Ocean
Fugative
Errantry
Bridge
Back
Demography
Nia
Color
Plantation
Nation
Beauty
Quanta
Architecture
Motion
Hold
Light
Clearnings
Ujima
Gravity
Touch
Pipelines
Time
Register
Mind
Cleering
Shadow
Volume
Skin
Silent
Compositional Thought (Black Comp);
Black Abstraction in Motion
Notes:
Hyper shapes
An aggregation of self-similar forms; fugitive things.
Light, air, space, solids, dynamic, ritual, functional, indeterminable, composition-disposition, silence, responsive, run, quiet, quietness.
Black Clouds
Who are you after swallowing the ocean and all of its light?
An enclosure of slow violence?
A chamber of waves and Black Clouds?
You swallowed the triangle, the distance, and the unknown.
The howling light years are in your body now.
Echoes of sorrow and steel adhere to each blood vessel.
An intermolecular force of blue.
And your arms are blurs of ships
You try holding emancipation to your damp chest
No time for drowning, you live on
with the dampness of the ocean,
with dripping spacious hands and brutal horizons
Soaked in discontinues Blackness
You can now spit light
This is where the glory is
The ongoing
The deep swallow changed you
Your old self is a tide inside your new self.
Breathing in a new liquid belonging
You lift your fingertip to see the cumulus energy of black being
You take that finger and make a mark, a dig, a scratch
You draw hauntology
A multi-scalar condition with an incompressible fluid
This new self is all chance and heat
Chance as form
And uncertain, indeterminable being of blue
A new demography
A new watercolor
Think about weight and scale. Stipule
Black world building where we move with peace and liberty
Models
I read this quote often and I've been paring it with these drawins.
"The model that I am proposing would be based on a theorization that melds various aspects of the human sciences and a mode of culture analysis for which we currently have no name, but one might think of it as a cultural demography; this new "science" would be alert to the cultural implications of movement, which is not only a primary meaning of the life-world but one of its most significant literary trope--the "symbolic geography" that would explain (1) diasporic movement, (2) internal migration, and (3) the mechanisms of fantasy and ambition that contextualize African American struggle."
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date (1994)
Hortense J. Spillers
a quiet prayer while making. 2016-the first hyper shape practice.
process/all love
In process: no words to describe how this feels. Agnes Martin Speaks of beauty, Alice Walker speaks of being her true self. Follow the women.
