99% NO.57 Monroe C.Sedrick Huckaby'sThe 99% Projectis a part of an installation of 101 lithographic portraits produced at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. He began this series by drawing family members and individuals he encountered near his neighborhood. Huckaby focuses less on locale than on the process of engaging with people who might otherwise be marginalized in society. Amidst creating works, he asks his subjects to describe what is most important

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which is governed by the intellectual and emotional states acting as one

My work is really spiritual in the sense that I am always thinking of this life and what it really means

the reassuring whistle in the night

It’s not African American art

Time and power dynamics are always at play

but in ways that are much more subtle than gold

sorrow and birth

How can you not say there’s a tradition of abstraction

root systems

they bring rest to my fragmented soul