99% NO.49 WillieSedrick Huckaby'sThe 99% Projectis a part of an installation of 101 lithographic portraits produced at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. He began this series by drawing family members and individuals he encountered near his neighborhood. Huckaby focuses less on locale than on the process of engaging with people who might otherwise be marginalized in society. Amidst creating works, he asks his subjects to describe what is most important

What interested me about the subject matter here was a sort of anti-titillating effect—the original is syrupy-sweet

it is meant to be a print in memory of these two people and how I remember both their lives and spirits

and collaborative projects I use varied combinations of glass

I am dealing with memory

and polished stainless steel or polychromed material turned into slender spires

is a response to the then ever-increasing drug trafficking and criminal activity that was happening in my neighborhood in the late 1980s and early '90s

precipitating a crisis of self-awareness

a good part of the work of Caymmi has Yemenja as its theme

one of his plates overlapped mine

and what she knows is the result of years of perfecting and instilling a method and an approach that

the exact place where it begins and ends

On the recommendation of Hitoshi Nakazato