the painting: learning how to hold onto more than crisis: a symphony with four movements on the attempt to survive with as much of ourselves intact as possible, 2024

(4 panel suite)

the reference: Toni Morrison in an interview where she says, “The truth lies in our myths, in our songs…that’s what the seeds are. It’s not possible to constantly hone on the crisis, you have to have the love and you have to have the magic. That’s also life and I regard it, even though it may sound as though I’m dealing in fantasy, I don’t think so. I find it all terribly realistic because I regard my responsibilities as a Black writer as someone who must bear witness. Someone who must record the way it used to be. And I want to make sure that a little piece of the world that I knew, a little piece that I knew, doesn’t get forgotten.” (source: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am documentary, 2019)

currently on view at Consortium Museum in Dijon, France. 🇫🇷