to live in the black diaspora I think is to live in a fiction - a creation of empires, and also self-creation. it is to be being living inside and outside herself [...] unable to escape it except in radiant moments of ordinariness made like art. to be a fiction in search of its most resonant metaphor then is even more intriguing.” ― dionne brand, a map to the door of no return
sit with the twin figures and meditate to the beat.
yoruba ibeji Male and female dolls dressed in cowrie shells (nigeria).
sampling creates deeper layers for those who understand the source, referencing history and memory. ~jamila woods
"looking back into the past" — a survival technique — became it's own cultural ethos and artistic form, birthing the world of musical sampling we know today. through struggle towards beauty.
