Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Christina), 2023, oil stick & chalk pastel on Somerset Newsprint, 38 x 56.5cm
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Christina Sharpe, author and academic
“There are all kinds of ordinary notes: there are unreservedly antiblack notes; there are notes that attempt, but fail, to undo antiblack logics; then there are notes that refuse altogether to accede to those logics that simultaneously de/re/ and unhuman Black people. These Black notes may land in silence or a tone, a sound, a pitch, a record, or an observation made with care; these notes might just reach you across distance, time, and space, and with them you may be “held and held.””
“What is required of us, now? In this long time of our undoing?”
Notes 1 & 246, in Ordinary Notes, 2023