Powerful ruminations on the nuanced symbolism of black hair
,” which embraced black hair and African features, became an integral part of her aesthetic sensibility.In her new book,, Simpson offers poetic meditation on the splendour of black hair, constructing collages made from vintage issues of, pages from old textbooks, “Riunite & Ice” ads, and luscious colourful ink washes to create spellbinding coiffures.
In the book’s introduction, poet, scholar, and author Elizabeth Alexander observes, “In Lorna Simpson’s collages ‘the black and the boisterous’ hair is the universal governing principle. Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors. The hair she paints has a mind of its own. It is sinuous and cloudy and fully alive. It is forest and ocean, its own emotional weather.
, which uses the same image of a jewelled woman throughout. The repetition of the same picture-perfect face in different works recalls the image of Nefertiti, the black queen of Egypt who was part of a revolutionary regime. Since her tomb was discovered in 1912, she has become an icon of the majestic power of black womanhood, becoming the face that launched countless replicas, which pay homage to the power of black beauty to transcend space and time.
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