2020-2021

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“In some far off place, many light years in space, I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have

never trod, where human eyes have never seen, I’ll build a world of abstract dreams and

wait for you. In tomorrow’s realm we’ll take the helm of new ships, then like the lash of

a whip we’ll start on our way and safely journey to another world, another world another

world’s world”.

(Sun Ra, (1980) I’ll wait for you, Strange Celestial Road, Rounder)

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In acknowledging Sun Ra’s statement “I'll wait for you”, a dream I had in which my ancestors presented themselves to me, allowed me to re-experience my future as well as my past simultaneously. Sun Ra’s claim rang true, they had waited for me. Now with a child-like vision and an affinity to this time, theirs and this place, theirs, I was able to see them, my ancestors. They presented themselves to me in forms of illuminating colours - beauty.  

(Part of the series: The Object of My Gaze)

 

©Marcia Michael, Visual Artist, London

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