Together
Building home together with a Black-queer ancestor I never got to meet
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For the last week, I painted a large scale version of a portion of a painting Amaza Lee Meredith made in 1973. A brightly colored abstract painting influenced by her studies with design theorist Arthur Wesley Dow1. Everyday I spent the day facing her work but with my brush strokes, my work but her radical lineage, but our radical collaboration. I would get on the scissor lift with a tray of her favorite aqua blue (the same color as the trim of Azurest South) and begin our spiritual collaboration.
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