The Chancellor Seguier on Horseback
Kehinde Wiley
I spot three models each wearing one of Akazuru’s incredible creations, garments of seeming complex structure elaborate texture and impossible conception – textile poems, textural symphonies and architectural conceits. I looked at them posing for a photograph and having only previously seen her work hanging in exhibition halls, express delight at seeing someone else wearing them other than Akazuru herself. I want them to move now. Akazuru says patiently, Wait.
Kara Walker, Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War.
