Blackness in Absentia
Norma Morgan’s work is prophetic, not because it predicts, but because it insists on a presence history has too often thinned and overlooked.
Norma Morgan’s work is prophetic, not because it predicts, but because it insists on a presence history has too often thinned and overlooked.
To view “Deborah Roberts: Consequences of Being” is to reckon with the figurations that have long confined the wonder of being both Black and a child, and to glimpse the radical possibility of self construction.
History has shown us what art looks like in times of war. We know how artists respond to scarcity, violence, and rupture. They absorb them. Survival and making are inseparable. Again and again, creativity bears the responsibility to both witness what is and imagine otherwise.