99% NO.63 DeActressSedrick Huckaby'sThe 99% Projectis a part of an installation of 101 lithographic portraits produced at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. He began this series by drawing family members and individuals he encountered near his neighborhood. Huckaby focuses less on locale than on the process of engaging with people who might otherwise be marginalized in society. Amidst creating works, he asks his subjects to describe what is most important

an ideal of Minimalism

that this journey of discovery would have on my ensuing work

was printed in an edition of 95 as an offset lithograph with hand-coloring

It reflects Delsarte’s memory of growing up in Harlem during the post-World War II era and its connections through music and culture to the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s

We were eventually found by the tug boat and transferred to a Coast Guard rescue boat

"It is my hope that we will remember we are Maka Wicasa—Earth people

And there’s a relationship between the printing process

I seek to explore and touch upon the human qualities ingrained in each of us which cause us to react

They are like kanji characters

The irregular shapes of the printing plates further imply that time and space are distorted and are never what we think they are

In my previous years I’ve developed work that changes its forms and condition turning time into its medium

but both at once