Beautiful— this piece caught me scrolling & I should be reading— glad. Love when people take the time to explore in depth the art that inspires them.

Pittsburgh’s Frick Museum had a Bearden exhibit about a year ago as well. Enjoyed this part: “Liquidity and jazz aesthetics are knitted closely, as Toni Morrison asserts when describing Romare Bearden's jazz-inspired collages as having borders that are “not just porous they are liquid.”3 In a different context, Gilles Deleuze describes “liquid perception” as “a clairvoyant function . . . developed in water, in opposition to earthly vision: it is in the water that the loved one who has disappeared is revealed, as if perception enjoyed a scope of interaction, a truth which it did not have on land.”4