Beautiful Blackness by Letitia Huckaby
Seasonal rainfall carves washes through the borderlands of the Sonoran Desert. Rains end and water evaporates, yet these channels occupy strata both visible and invisible. Currents often rearrange themselves and flow below ground, less susceptible to changes above. Beautiful Blackness is a visual pilgrimage following the path of Exodusters, African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas and Oklahoma in the late nineteenth century, and an exploration of the remains of Freeman’s towns across the south. It is an elegy for a lost promised land. Landscapes and figurative works combine to depict an exodus, a people and what remains of their hopes and dreams.
Letitia Huckaby lives and works in Benbrook, Texas.
To view more work, please visit www.huckabystudios.com
American Light, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 24 1/4” x 24”
Beautiful Blackness, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoops, 17 1/2” x 16”
Black is Blue, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 19 1/2” x 27 3/4”
Black Nature, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 19 1/2” x 27 3/4”
Called Delineation, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 24 1/4” x 24”
Cattle on a Thousand Hills, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 19 1/2” x 27 3/4”
Harvest Song, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 27 3/4” x 19 1/2”
A Cloister of Blackbirds, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 20” x 12”
Sweet Enough, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 20” x 12”
Like a Familiar, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 19 1/2” x 27 3/4”
Likeness, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 7 1/4” x 7 1/4”
Nobody Knows, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 9 ¼” x 5 13/16”
Not for Sale, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 9 ¼” x 5 7/8”
Postcard to an Ecologist, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 24 1/4” x 24”
Testifies , Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 27 3/4” x 19 1/2”
The Breath of God, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 6 15/16” x 6 1/4”
Those of Our Land, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 27 3/4” x 19 1/2”
To a Certain Lady , Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop, 8 3/4” x 8 3/8”
Study for What the Land Remembers , Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop
Study for Where the Light Lingers, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric with Embroidery Hoop