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Yashua Klos, our labour, edited by Tracy L. Adler; contributions by LeRonn P. Brooks and Lauren Haynes

eng

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Yashua Klos

edited by Tracy L. Adler; contributions by LeRonn P. Brooks and Lauren Haynes

our labour

This book features a recent body of work by New York–based artist Yashua Klos (born 1977) and builds upon the artist’s explorations into the intersections between the human form, the natural world and the built environment. Foregrounding a series of print-based and sculptural works, Yashua Klos: Our Labour considers how familial, geographic and narrative histories inform notions of identity. Klos employs a process of collaging woodblock prints to engage ideas about Blackness and maleness as identities that are both fragmented and constructed. In this volume, Klos introduces works conceived around an examination of creative and industrial labor through both deeply personal and historic lenses

Director's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Transformational Rehabilitation and Yashua Klos: Our Labour -- Our Labour -- Conversation / LeRonn P. Brooks and Yashua Klos -- Masks -- Tyla -- Auntie Grandma -- Vein Vine -- Visible and Invisible Labor / Lauren Haynes -- When the Parts Untangle -- Yonna and Towana -- The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth -- Woodblocks -- Artists' Acknowledgments -- Contributors