For the inaugural issue of @jupiter.magazine I wrote an exhibition review of the @walesbonner Moma presentation and held a Guinean guitarist’s dance floor in Park Slope as the centrifugal point of experience and critique. At this bar on this dance floor a tranquil yet powerful musician once a part of Bembeya Jazz National has been playing for the past 15 years. What flows from a man named Mamady Kouyate is the preservation of late 20th century Guinean sonic aesthetics, very full of the socio-political landscape of the numerous West African countries gaining independence during these decades. In speaking about her exhibition Wales Bonner expressed delight in the way sound/spirit can be captured, vesselized in different forms. Through the course of a night at Barbes where sound, instrument, body, and shadow wade to the center of the dancefloor is exactly where “Spirit Movers” breathes long and articulated life. To be given the space where the deep basins of my curiosities were able to traipse around in delight unfettered and unequivocally supported was something I have not known until the hands of @camillegbacon & @dariasimoneharper. What they have built is a lighthouse for us all to gaze towards. It is an honor to be celebrated by Jupiter Magazine along with fellow inimitable contributors Akwaeke Emezi, J Wortham, Joshua Segun Lean, and Rianna Jade Parker. Thank you Jupiter Magazine! Essay in bio. Image W. Eugene Smith. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. 1964 courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art