Untitled (Field Guide–exposure to enchanted forms; a kamal and Polaris creating possibility), 2023. Graphite, gouache, cut vinyl, enamel paint, colored pencil, and collage on a Xerox Versant 80 print on Mohawk Superfine paper. 18.25 x 12 inches.
A “kamal is one of the earliest navigational tools that used measuring altitude to determine latitude. The word kamal means “guide” in Arabic. […] Essentially, a kamal is a flat piece of wood with a string attached to the middle. The kamal uses the position of Polaris (the North Star) in the sky to help a sailor determine his latitude.”
The North Star, newspaper founded and edited by Frederick Douglass.
“…that the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand redress,—that the man STRUCK is the man to CRY OUT—and that he who has endured the cruel pangs of Slavery is the man to advocate Liberty.”
“The stars are pinned between the leaves
of the trees, and love is only a harbinger,
…
signposts pointing the way
in and out
Cynthia Zarin, Field Guide
The Point of Precision by Kathleen Stewart, 2016. This essay proposes a kind of critique aimed at approaching the improvisatory conceptuality of ordinary forms emergent in everyday life. Using a slowed ethnographic attention to the immanent aesthetics of objects, it argues that the singularities through which forms take place animate both event and perception.
