
A Soulful Bee, A Soulful Rose, Way Down, 1962.
You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?

Flattery, deference, smiles, ringing laughter, affectionate greetings were the order of the day.
the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness,
a soldierly fixity of mind
a series of spastic clumsy gymnastic movements that were somehow accusatory,
He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.
(GS)
Birth, life, and death—each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. (TM).

Carissa Rodriguez, The Maid. 2018.
Metropolitan Museum. Single-channel video, color, sound, 12 minutes 22 seconds.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.

Title: The Guide (Éclaireur)
Artist: Hervé Télémaque (Haitian, Port-au-Prince 1937–2022 Paris)
Date: 1962
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 3/16 × 76 3/4 in. (130 × 195 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, by exchange, 2023
Object Number: 2023.136
At Metropolitan Museum.






Jack Whitten at MoMA.
Otobong Nkanga : Cadence, at MoMA.
Kennedy Yanko at James Cohan
Hahn Rowe at La Mama, in Tides.
Pierre Bellot at 56 Henry
Katharina Grosse at Renaissance Society, via the catalogue.

It’s just depravity that they try to make glorious, natural. But it ain’t.
The beauty of what we do is its secrecy, its smallness.
– TM

I see him still. He’s helpful to me, real helpful. Tells me things I need to know.
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.
That skill allowed her more freedom hour by hour and day by day than any other work a woman of no means whatsoever and no inclination to make love for money could choose.
(TM)