taking care of anything we create (26 October 2016)

Bootsy Collins

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

- Bootsy Collins

Lorna Simpson, series of Ebony and Jet collages, 2012

Lorna Simpson, Jet Foreign (Jet collages), 2012

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

- Bootsy Collins

 Lorna Simpson, Soundlessness, 2016


You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

- Bootsy Collins

Lorna Simpson, The daughter of ... (detail) (Ebony collages), 2015

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

- Bootsy Collins

Lorna Simpson, Please remind me of who I am (detail), 2009