A Brush With Dhyandra Lawson

I also return to Trinh T. Minh-Ha’s essays and Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return. These authors opened my inquisitiveness early in my education and learning and helped me form inquiries I still go after today.

I would certainly live with a David Hammons body print. When I saw the job for the very first time, it clarified what the risks of producing could be for a musician. Pressing his body on paper was such an intimate act.

I would certainly live with a David Hammons body print. When I saw the help the very first time, it clarified what the risks of producing might be for a musician. Pressing his body theoretically was such an intimate act. As soon as him and not him, the impressions of his skin are at.

I suggest viewing Soundtrack to a Stroke Of Genius D’Etat, a documentary regarding the history of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected head of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Belgian film-maker Johan Grimonprez reveals just how the Eisenhower management manipulated jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong to sidetrack from the murder of Lumumba. I was amazed how the film-maker utilized the spontaneous, fragmented language of jazz as a visual method.

When I went to the House of Slaves on the island of Gorée in Dakar, Senegal, I really did not expect to see so many kids. They laughed and ran through the prison’s passages. Their happiness seemed defiant in such a location. They reminded me of African individuals’ durability.