99% NO.83 2013

Curator: Sedrick Huckaby's "99% NO.83," a diminutive drawing, presents us with a figure absorbed in reading. It's currently held at the Harvard Art Museums. Editor: It feels intimate, almost like catching a glimpse of someone's quiet moment. The charcoal lines are so immediate, like a quick breath. Curator: The work may be interpreted as a meditation on the act of reading as a form of resistance, particularly within the context of Black intellectual history. Editor: You know, there’s also a beautiful fragility here. The sunflower, rendered so delicately, beside the figure deep in thought. It feels like hope and reflection intertwined. Curator: Precisely, it speaks to the potential for growth and resilience even in environments of constraint. Editor: I love how it asks me to consider what I’m holding, what I'm reading, and what that means in the bigger picture. Curator: Absolutely, it makes us reconsider the personal as inherently political.