Images:
And dish water gives back no images.
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A narrative performance about seeing yourself.
A narrative performance about seeing yourself.
2010
2010
Images is built around a recording of Nina Simone singing her version of the poem “No Images” by Harlem Renaissance poet William Waring Cuney. As I wash images pulled from the lyrics of the song, bright colors previously applied to each image mix to dishwater brown in a washtub. I then hang these images from strings that drip color onto myself, reversing both the artistic process and the song's narrative.
Images is built around a recording of Nina Simone singing her version of the poem “No Images” by Harlem Renaissance poet William Waring Cuney. As I wash images pulled from the lyrics of the song, bright colors previously applied to each image mix to dishwater brown in a washtub. I then hang these images from strings that drip color onto myself, reversing both the artistic process and the song's narrative.
She does not know
her beauty,
she thinks her brown body
has no glory.
If she could dance
naked
under palm trees
and see her image in the river,
she would know.
But there are no palm trees
on the street,
and dish water gives back
no images.
- William Waring Cuney
Special thanks to Linden Little.
Images was photographed by Karyn E, Shunsuke Manabe, Jack Clayton, and Marianne Evans-Lombe and filmed by Steve Liggett and Graceanna De-l.
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