Barry, 2018. Ink and graphite on paper. 36 x 24”
The first iteration of Rhapsody Refracted focused on the final moments of the 89th Academy Awards in which the presenters failed to announce the movie, “Moonlight,” as the winner for the Best Picture Oscar. While the mistake was eventually reconciled onstage and broadcast on international television, the moment of recognition of the film and filmmaker’s historic achievements were marred irrevocably by this unprecedented blunder. The work was the first in this ongoing series of propositions of time reconstituted–reimagined and reclaimed from the refracted fragments of stifled elation.