In the Dream House – Archive 1

“But the nature of archival silence is that certain people’s narratives and their nuances are swallowed by history; we see only what pokes through because it is sufficiently salacious for the majority to pay attention.” Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Sonia Sanchez

Poem for July 4, 1994 It is essential that Summer be grafted tobones marrow earth clouds blood theeyes of our ancestors.It is essential to smell the beginningwords where Washington, Madison, Hamilton,Adams, Jefferson assembled amid cries of:        “The people lack of information”       “We grow more and more skeptical”       “This Constitution is a triple-headed monster”  …

Chris Ofili

 “In the process of making art, the mind wanders and gives way to instinct, which feeds off areas the intellect doesn’t. The process is one of distillation to the point where it’s just essence, just itself.” –Chris Ofili

Nikita Gale

http://burnaway.org/studio-visit-bon-voyage-nikita-gale/ “…imagining the body as a site capable of both the production and consumption of identity and considers how identity is constructed in the absence of a physical body.” – Nikita Gale “….commonly encounter representations of their lived experience as spectacle.” – Nikita  Gale  Artist’s Website

Holland Cotter on Alma Thomas

  “…forward-looking without being radical; post-racial but also race-conscious; in love with new, in touch with old.” -Holland Cotter on Alma Thomas from Critic’s Notebook White House Art: Colors From a World of Black and White

Sheila Hicks

 “I want the desire to touch to be very much alive. I think that is important, the wanting: the desire to hold it in your hands, to befriend it, to see if it bites, or if it’s compatible to your existence, and in what way.” – Sheila Hicks

Mira Schor

“Optical process must be bolstered by the sense of touch.” – Mira Schor