Ordinary Notes IMP and Bill Kouelany―When We See

and Bill Kouelany―When We See Us is a major contribution to our understanding of Black art that will appeal to anyone interested in modern and contemporary figurative art and Black cultural history

Do not leave burning candle unattended

May induce yodeling

each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment

loopy design and white detail that's destined to be the best part of any outfit

Ordinary Notes IMP and Bill Kouelany―When We SeeThe critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman). A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe