Golden Time of Day, 2024
Ink on Bristol Paper, 17 in x 14 in
This piece is the fourth in a five part series of ink drawings exploring themes of Black joy, justice, and radical leisure. The series was inspired by the common practice of mailing postcards of lynchings casually across the country with the goal of flipping the apathy and violence against Black American bodies back onto violent oppressors themselves.
This piece explores the possibilities of what we could be doing with the bodies that stood in the way of our liberation. It is reflective of ways that our murdered sacred bodies were often handled by our captors and slavers, thrown in mass graves and used as gator bait in the river. This piece is also reflective of the joy and leisure that people found in our murder and desecration.