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On Kenturah Davis’s planar vessel XVII, 2023
By Zoë Hopkins

Come closer, for the words reveal themselves slowly. Like speech that emerges into itself from a whisper.

Wavering in and out of visibility, a swarm of miniscule text floats in pool of thin green ink, cautiously rising from and then stealing back into the right-hand panel of Kenturah Davis’s planar vessel XVII, 2023. Words burrow themselves into the shadows of charcoal, flickering amongst the contours of a figure drawn in three quarters. Face tilted up and away from our gaze, she holds the text in tender secrecy, masking it underneath …