"Light" is a collage poem sound piece that was constructed by Krista Franklin that premiered as a part of the programming of "Eunice Johnson: Fashion's First Afro-Surrealist" at Milwaukee Art Museum in February of 2015. It was recorded by J. Johari Palacio (Perpetual Rebel), and read by Krista Franklin.

Light

Audio Poem written and recorded by Krista Franklin

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A reading of the poem "Probe" by Krista Franklin. From TOO MUCH MIDNIGHT (The BreakBeat Poets series, Haymarket Books, 2020).

https://www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Midnight-BreakBeat-Poets/dp/1642591300

"Probe"

Poet & artist Krista Franklin reads her poem "Someone in my Family" from TOO MUCH MIDNIGHT (Haymarket Books, 2020).

https://www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Midnight-BreakBeat-Poets/dp/1642591300

Someone in my Family

This teaser is from "The Two Thousand & Thirteen Narrative(s) of Naima Brown", the sound component of Krista Franklin's Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, and is a collaboration between Perpetual Rebel and Krista Franklin.

"The Two Thousand & Thirteen Narrative(s) of Naima Brown" is an art installation that incorporates handmade papermaking, synthetic hair, and sound. The work is a compendium of visual, sound and text that revolve around an original narrative of a contemporary shapeshifter named Naima Brown. Largely inspired by Octavia E. Butler's novel Wild Seed, Naima Brown is a young woman who possesses the supernatural ability to transform herself into a variety of forms — human, plant and animal. Influenced by folklore tales of the African Diaspora, "The Two Thousand & Thirteen Narratives of Naima Brown" is a visual and sound collage that complicates and contributes to the artistic scholarship of the female body of color, notions about the multi-racial narrative, and the ever-changing and disposable 21st Century identity through an interdisciplinary lens.

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