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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

So that you never reallybecame too attached to not make everything you doseem so precious...

So that you never really
became too attached to not make everything you do
seem so precious that it can't be transformed,
that it can't be modified, or it can't be improved

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So that you never really became too attached
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to not make everything you do seem so precious
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that it can't be transformed, that it can't be modified,
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or it can't be improved.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:32
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Two Dollars and a Dream

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Movie Summary

An in-depth look at the works of up-and-coming Black visual artists.
I was very interested in, uh, non-Western philosophies - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
I was very interested in, uh, non-Western philosophies
KERRY: I had seen, uh, Black Girl's Window before. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
KERRY: I had seen, uh, Black Girl's Window before.
When I looked back at that work, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:12
When I looked back at that work,
And I made a painting called - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
And I made a painting called
Which is a Black figure against a black ground. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
Which is a Black figure against a black ground.
And it was the first time I had used this simplified, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
And it was the first time I had used this simplified,
And so that painting was the-- the one that established - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
And so that painting was the-- the one that established
One of the things I was trying to do was to embody in a picture - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
One of the things I was trying to do was to embody in a pict...
He describes the condition of invisibility - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
He describes the condition of invisibility
This condition of being seen and not seen simultaneously. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
This condition of being seen and not seen simultaneously.
And that's what I think a Black figure - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:15
And that's what I think a Black figure
I started creating the sense of volume in those figures - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
I started creating the sense of volume in those figures
So, uh-- You take black, you add white to it, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
So, uh-- You take black, you add white to it,
Black is not the absence of color, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
Black is not the absence of color,
And so if I went to the paint store, as I did, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
And so if I went to the paint store, as I did,
So I could buy an ivory black, I could buy a carbon black, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
So I could buy an ivory black, I could buy a carbon black,
And if you look at each one of those colors, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
And if you look at each one of those colors,
Every one of these tones is on those-- the later figures. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
Every one of these tones is on those-- the later figures.
But, I mean, they all look the same, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
But, I mean, they all look the same,
So I can end up with six, seven, eight or nine - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
So I can end up with six, seven, eight or nine