Hi everyone, I am still thinking about Saidiya Hartman. For weeks I’ve been infatuated with the following quote: “Beauty is not a luxury; it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given. Only the wayward appreciated this girl’s riotous conduct and wild habits—her longing to create a life from nothing. Only they could discern the beautiful plot against the plantation that she waged everyday.”
six: "lost in the music"
six: "lost in the music"
six: "lost in the music"
Hi everyone, I am still thinking about Saidiya Hartman. For weeks I’ve been infatuated with the following quote: “Beauty is not a luxury; it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given. Only the wayward appreciated this girl’s riotous conduct and wild habits—her longing to create a life from nothing. Only they could discern the beautiful plot against the plantation that she waged everyday.”