The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

May 27, 2021 by Mariamma Kambon

Discussion Points for Bookclubs and Study Groups: At over 500 pages, this latest addition to the assortment of Malcolm X biographies offers the reader an opportunity to review the life of an American icon – the Black shining prince of the Civil Rights Movement – in richly detailed context. 

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Technology Reversal Illustrates the Progression of Time

March 19, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

    A photograph can preserve a moment well past a lifetime, inscribing it with the indelible ink of light. Because it has the power to make time stand still, photography is our ultimate defense against mortality. Part of the magic of photography is in the physics of this art form. Wave packets of light bounce off of a countenance and race through a piece of curved glass to smack into a layer of chemicals and leave a trace of […]

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“Omen” featured in group show, EXPLICIT PROTOCOL

November 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

The piece, “Omen/ He Dances in the Courtyard of the Impertinent” was on display in Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY from October 21 to November 1, 2013, in the group show “Explicit Protocol” Decades ago, “justice” was already an ambiguous term when applied to the carceral system of the United States, with its overt and inherent biases of class and particularly of race. In 1967, in a letter to his father, from solitary confinement, George Jackson had a clear concept of […]

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Finding Moses

July 26, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

They were on the bank of a stream of some width, and apparently a deep and rapid one. The men were afraid to cross; there was no bridge and no boat; but like her great pattern, she went forward into the waters, and the men not knowing what else to do, followed… (Bradford) They called her Moses. Born Araminta Ross in the early 19th century, into the holds of slavery, Harriet Tubman would come to be known as a fearless liberator. […]

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Artist Statement and triptych – Castle of My Skin

March 14, 2011 by Mariamma Kambon

“Castle of my skin” is an abbreviation of the title of a book by a renowned Caribbean author – an autobiographical story of the coming of age of a young man of African descent in a British West Indian Colony. I selected this title based on my own exploration of growing up in a post-Independence, former British colony in the West Indies, tracing the path of an earlier generation who were born into colonialism. I seek to understand the split […]

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