Manifestations of YaYa

Manifestations: Seeing (Episode#4)


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Host Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle/Olomidara Yaya processes the Breonna Taylor news and discusses being in the midst of grieving, healing, and envisioning a new future amidst mercury in retrograde. From discussing the problematics with perception due to Liquitex's Portrait Pink to discussing Dennis Billops, a visually impaired activist who predicts the colors of her recent work, Hinkle/Yaya examines ways of seeing and unseeing. She also reads an excerpt from the second book of the Famished Road Trilogy, Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri, published by Jonathan Cape Limited, 1993. The book features a passage that discusses the main character Azaro, living in the midst of political upheaval from the point of view of a mascarade that represents the Party of the Rich. Hinkle/Yaya discusses the difficulty of trying to envision the future in the midst of current events and the chaos that this moment in the historical present is collectively and individually showing us. She asks, "What is the legacy that you want to leave behind as a creative?"


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Manifestations of YaYaBy Kenyatta A.C.Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya)