Luckily, there will always be people who appreciate the old stuff.

When I moved to Chicago, I was definitely jumping into a fad, which was community engagement. That was definitely treated and abused. The word was tossed around so carelessly.

Long story short: I was on a walk the other day, thinking about the damp fungal semiotic oblivion around the word “art.”

There is a unique St. Louisan spirit for artists to simultaneously contribute as both artist and activist, an impulse which evolved from the years between 2014 and 2017.

Good doesn't always mean the same thing for everyone.

Loving yourself is about embracing the love you have for your practice because you love yourself first.

Everything was confusing at Transmission, and by design.

The myth is that if we can’t “make it,” then we don’t want it bad enough. Such thinking fails to consider people as whole parts within a whole system.

Experiencing the flow state of creation feels outside the bounds of time itself to me. How can that not feel spiritual?

How does your work participate in cycles longer than three to four generations? 

Naming the non-human features of the land is a human activity with all attendant human limitations. Thus the will to represent falls into the well of selection—and for an atlas like this one, of curation.

The role or the function of publications or media or mediated publications is to help to create new publics, and to help solidify collective consciousness around shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge.

I’m here simply because I love being here, and I love making art here.

The first shelf of the music biographies section contains around twenty Louis Armstrong titles, several in duplicate. That’s just one shelf.

I’ve been called a utopian for thinking another world is possible, but it’s going to be a different world no matter what happens.

I will never forget walking around the fountain, soaking up all the sounds and the Black joy exuberating from building to building—people dancing in the streets in unison, celebrating together for one day.

we are at the edge of a forest, i ask you if you’re ready to enter

“We have to highlight the birds. We need to give them the proper credit.”

For me, it is imperative to understand the past to feel grounded in the present, and to imagine a radical future.

Critique is only ever the process of articulating something real, by which I mean, shared.