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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Malcolm Lizzappi
Malcolm Chong Lizzappi is a visual artist, scientist, and organizer. His work includes documenting Black and Palestinian movements for justice and Life. In 2015, Malcolm received an Institute for Diversity in the Arts Community Arts Fellowship to document critical moments in the movement for Black lives. His present photographic work aims to expand and explore the visual vocabulary of alternative epistemologies of Blackness, e.g. Michelle Wright’s “Epiphenomenal Time.” He recently received his B.A.H. in African and African-American Studies from Stanford University. Presently, he investigates C. elegans glial biology in the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at The Rockefeller University. You can see his photography at @malcolmxposure on Instagram.
Stanford University