On view at Locust Projects April 13 - April 20 (For access on April 20 to the 2024 Spring Fling ticket is required PURCHASE HERE)

o Artist: Caecillia Tripp and Karen D. McKinnon (Stardust Seed Collective)

o Title: The Water Dancer II

o Year: 2023/24

o Medium: Diasec / ED 5 + 2AP

o Dimensions: 24 x 36 inches

o Description: Water Dancer is born out of the urgency of Black Lives Matter, the urgency to unbury the long drowned history of South Florida. A beautiful, healing, empowering and spiritual Celebration of collective consciousness. A Water Dancer Monument of mourning and uprising of all the Beauty lost in the infinite deep echoing ocean. Here and beyond, bonding in an irreversible entanglement with the Black Anthropocene. Drifting the rhizomatic ocean waterways, in a poetic Act of Defiance as a Being of Drexciya, thriving into new futurities, where the past and the present transforms into imagining possible futures. A new species, the Water Dancer, merges half a human, half an alien as Octavia Butler imagined in her Xenogenesis trilogy, Rising from this otherworldly Dialogical Identity of Freedom where Everyone is a stranger in their own right of Becoming and of Opacity.

A collaboration with Divers With a Purpose (DWP)

Commissioned by LOCUST PROJECTS MIAMI & ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION

in Co-Production with the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

o Artist website or Instagram: orangetwistfilms | https://www. ernahecey.com/artists/33- caecilia-tripp/