Solvitur ambulando (It is solved by walking) – Saint Augustine.
“I wanted to walk in this impossible place, to walk on the line of my vision, or along the edge of my imagination.” from Touch, 2002, by Janine Antoni. via sophiesiem
Category: language
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Achebe
Memory is necessary if surviving is going to be more than just a technical thing.
… Ibo proverb — “Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.”
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Related : Conversations with James Baldwin. Book.
“[Photo] of Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin in Florida, 1980. Where they met for the first time at a conversation between them organised as part of a conference hosted by the African Literature Association, in Gainesville, Florida.” via duroolowu.
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AG2020_1880723a or what ended in pique
Met by luck, with like destinations, We startled again at what ended in pique. Strollers out, seeing us, had no notion;
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We heard of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose
Untitled (Here, we are. We heard of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (i) in a refrain (pp) of the common wind.), 2020, archival pigment print, 14 x 21 inches.
Untitled (Errant and choric utterances), 2020, vinyl letters on wall.
via crispellertart
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Miami Dérive: Walking with Adler Guerrier, BURNAWAY
Burnaway magazine published a text by Ade J. Omotosho. It is generous of its subjects.
We passed through rows of the winsome, modest single-story homes that line the streets, vivid in their mamey pinks, robin’s egg blues, and other confectionery colors that comprise the city’s unmistakable palette. Lately Guerrier has been fascinated with the creation of what he calls “immigrant space” within Miami’s neighborhoods, and he is developing a film project centered on this phenomenon. For instance, much has been made of the way that people of the African diaspora adorn and furnish domestic spaces, but relatively less of how we fashion exterior space, which Guerrier believes is an equally viable realm for families to “insist on” their presence and sensibilities.
Omotosho was a curatorial fellow at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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Seeks out the edges of things, of understanding
“Art seeks out the edges of things, of understanding; therefore its favourite modes are irony, negation, deadpan, the pretence of ignorance or innocence. It prefers the unfinished: the syntactically unstable, the semantically malformed. It produces and savours discrepancy in what it shows and how it shows it, since the highest wisdom is knowing that things and pictures do not add up.” –T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers, 1984.
Epigraph of Sue Graze’s essay for Concentrations 17: Vernon Fisher, Lost for Words, Dallas Museum of Art from January 23 – April 17, 1988.
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Saidiya Hartman on Moma’s Books That Matter
…blackness is in an antagonistic relationship with the proper…
via Moma magazine.
Read an excerpt, A minor figure, on Longreads.
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Son[i]a #279 – Élisabeth Lebovici
