ARABESQUEIn Memory of Kajieme Powell
Eight paintings based on a cell phone video of the minutes when the potential flow of events was still undetermined. Days after the murder of Michael Brown and a few miles from Ferguson.
The recorder of the scene was a young man whose voice gave impertinent or inquisitive or nervous narration. Circling in a mirroring direction with a man who stole the two sodas and then just put them on the sidewalk.
Pacing.Moving.Waiting.
"Am I on Instagram? Am I on FB? You don’t even know me."
The chorus behind the camera
"This isn’t the way to do it, bro. Put it down, bro."
The arabesque in Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, the controlling of the middle, a taking action out of inertia.
A Series of Eight Movements
Oil and acrylic on paper,
each 11 x 14 inNext Section