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“Fatalism and Fairy Tales and the Predictable Magic of Everything”
“Fatalism and Fairy Tales and the Predictable Magic of Everything” is a photo-montage that uses two images: one, of a story written by the artist’s brother as a young child and saved by their mother; and two, of the same brother as a teenager captured in the middle of the act of dunking a basketball. The piece questions which of these images in the fairy-tale, the act of the boy attempting to fly, or the story of the boy with the fatalistic future, surprisingly imagined by a young boy himself. The piece re-creates a tension between the hope and hopeless often experienced in the growing up of black boyhood.