99% NO.21 Bert Long com/selected-essays

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and I began to understand what was to come

the exploration with translucent inks and the process of guiding the image through several stages has enabled the work to articulate a more subtle and more somber presence filtered through layers of color

I began imagining and imaging the anonymous faces of the children that did not arrive in Portobelo on those slavers—Los Desaparecidos

and textiles

99% NO.21 Bert Long com/selected-essaysSedrick Huckaby'sThe 99% Projectis a part of an installation of 101 lithographic portraits produced at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. He began this series by drawing family members and individuals he encountered near his neighborhood. Huckaby focuses less on locale than on the process of engaging with people who might otherwise be marginalized in society. Amidst creating works, he asks his subjects to describe what is most important