◇ After
This Is America · Childish Gambino · video dir. Hiro Murai, 2018
The closing chase, held still. Bare-chested with the thin gold rope chain, torso pitched forward mid-run, fist clenched, a bank of red silhouetted pursuers filling the ground behind.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
◇ Piece Room
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