Torkwase Dyson is one of the most innovative thinkers and artists working today. Dyson’s abstractionist practice explores Black spatial relations in our histories, our social structures, and our ecology. In the spring of 2023, she worked on a project at Paulson Fontaine Press, producing works titled Metamorphosis 1-4. “I knew I wanted to explore the physicality of inked plates being pressed into paper. I imagined the experience of absorption and quietly thought about light and color. It was a question of color as object and space. And I’d been thinking about expressive marks making up against a flat plane. I was interested in the flatness of the ink on paper. The rich but flat surface. These are productive contradictions I think about in my practice in general.”
