"only the poets [artists] know..."
In 2012, I sat for artist Nakeya Brown's The Refutation of 'Good' Hair.
Pelican Bomb's new digital exclusive on her series presents interviews from each model.
Read what I shared and don't sleep on the never before seen unsolicited submissions either, I'm in love...
"...we would sit there, still,
watching our mothers mix dreams
with a spatula..."
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"In Within and Without: The Refutation of "Good" Hair, a digital presentation created exclusively with Pelican Bomb, we excavate the dialogue between the three positions within the project—that of artist, subject, and audience. We alternate Brown’s original images from 2012, recent interviews with her models, and unsolicited emails and poems she received throughout to visualize a type of disruption and co-creation previously unmapped in relation to her project, finding new points of convergence, deviation, and transcendence."
Follow Nakeya's work here and on her Tumblr.
Pilsen, Chicago. 2015.
Last month, I attended the artist talk for Nakeya Brown's exhibition "In Private Moments," sponsored by Top Rank Magazine at FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She was in conversation with the dynamic Kimberly Drew of Black Contemporary Art.
I sat for Nakeya's photo project, The Refutation of 'Good' Hair in 2012 and its growing success has been amazing to watch!
Back in November 2014, I also interviewed Nakeya on TROGH and the progress of her more recent series. Read it here.
Stay tuned for more of Nakeya's growing body of work at nakeyab.com and follow her on tumblr.