KEMAR WYNTER

ARTIST

“Junetime brings forth nectars of sweet sanguine and ichorous violet to pass beyond our umber-rimmed lips. this brew, dulcet and shimmering or as readily spiced and fortified calls forth to those whose skin was tempered in the radiance of the noonday sun, along the islands and coastlines of the Atlantic. hibiscus, sorrel, bissap, a tonic which commands countless names amongst the diaspora's countless enclaves. May it ever hold the sound of rent flesh as it holds the chitter of breaking chains. The clanging of machetes, and the echo of muskets beneath the canopy and the roars of triumph in an unceasing liberation.”

BLACK & INDOMITABLE

“Four hundred years and some change; of racism and slavery, Jim Crow and Apartheid, leaded pipes and the carceral state. Many names, and many theories on how to break Black people, to destroy Blackness incarnate, yet we're still here and will be here in the future.”