Published Writing
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography
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An often-unaddressed issue in the mechanical functionality of photogra- phy is that the image a lens projects into the body of the camera is of a circular shape. This means that a portion of the content that arrives inside the camera is in the peripheral space outside the borders of the film where the image is captured.
Twenty-Two Divided By Seven, at the Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee's correlation strategy of education included the mathematic strategy of the ancient Greek scientist Archimedes. He'd created the use of twenty-two divided by seven as a short cut use of the Pi (3.14) geometric measurement.
Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner
In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently in his sketchbooks. One of the stories is a based on a moment in his childhood when his parents sent him into the cellar to collect pieces of coal. While down there he passes by a row of pillars abd enters into an outdoor pastoral landscape. He moves quickly because his legs have taken on independent control of the speed and direction of his body. He interacts with fences, paved roads, plants, farm animals, and seafarers. The story ends with a clever paternal adage, “you are good when you are asleep, because those who played the hardest were the ‘best toys’, and as I have said all played the hardest when asleep.”
She Put Her Foot In It: Visualizing an Assertion of Willpower
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This title and thematic origin stem from the African American food culture idiom “she put her foot in it.” This phrase articulates an assertion of willpower, on the part of the cook, through the metaphor of stomping on the food as part of the cooking process.
Inside the Indirection of Booker T. Washington
Inside the Indirection of Booker T. Washington
Inside the Indirection of Booker T. Washington: Applying the Philosophy of Photography and Washington’s Style of Rhetoric to Seeing What’s Been Sown.
Information hidden, rather than erased, becomes planted in the periphery. When
information sits unseen for long periods of time, society can become unaware of how that absence has shaped their knowledge. The social epistemology of Booker T. Washington has been shaped by many apertures. Washington positioned himself in a backstage position, premeditating on what his
audience would see and hear. Indirection was his survivalist strategy. Rather than
speaking in his own words and voice, he used content that his audience was aware of so that any negative responses would aim at the sources rather than at him. When looking from the inside and through the lens he’d constructed, it becomes possible to reap many of the things he’d sown, that have sat unrecognized in African American history.