Read our latest blog post on the recent Open Sessions' Artist Talk with #TorkwaseDyson, #ChatTravieso, and #KabirCarter. The post is by Open Sessions Intern, Cheeyeon Park ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Torkwase Dyson uses the curves and edges of geometry in her drawings to signify the body’s entanglement with architectural spaces. These geometric shapes serve as signifiers of history of slavery, systematic disenfranchisement, and the continuing notion of fugitivity in fiction and reality. The amalgamation of these signifiers creates an idiosyncratic language, narrating different relationships between the body and the spaces that it occupies. Condensing historical narratives of slave escape and critique of present day state-sanctioned racial demarcations in housing, Dyson arrives at abstract shapes to show how spaces are defined by conditions of power. Through her ongoing project, The Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice, Dyson hopes to create a dialogical and pedagogical soc...