by Michael Warr (Chinese translation by Chun Yu)
(Written in response to violent attacks against Asians during the COVID-19 crisis.)
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Features by Michael Warr
On edge of the darkest ghetto
stood Candlestick Park
lit bright as an A-bomb’s flash.
When I show people this photograph of my mother, their response is often the same as mine when I first saw it: "She looks like a movie star." Yet, when she was growing up kids...
Do you recognize the background in this photo taken somewhere in Bayview Hunters Point? Help me figure out where by replying below.
The problem is not the letter X
or the myriad of emblazoned caps
even worn backward by white boys.
When Arsenio sports a...
In our workshops with students at the Bayview Hunters Point YMCA, Mark Sabb, Luis Reyes, and I asked them to bring images that they wanted to respond to. We also asked them to...
My Mother's cornbread was otherworldly. I am sure that is why I associate it with being transported to another plane. “Hallucinating at the Velvet Lounge,” is an ode to black...
Bay to Nile, steel and stone, Hunters Point to Gizah, asphalt and sand, America to Africa, cranes and ports, New Age to antiquity, Hilltop and Mokattam, okra to Bamya, Star...
My family often traveled outside of Hunters Point. Here I am with two of my sisters, Maryann Crayton and Jean Beshears at Playland Land in San Francisco on the opposite side of...
The video "A Few of My Influences," compiled by me, created by Mark Sabb, and contributed to by Jonathan Penton, is evolutionary in the sense that it is unfinished. I will...
In Peak to Pyramids my hope was to articulate a theme of globalism. As someone who is constantly connected to the internet I was able to recognize the rising tide of...
Video is currently in post production. We are working on it.
Video is currently in post production. We are working on it.
Video is currently in post production. We are working on it.
This digital image series, based on my experience in Africa, is what led me to the concept of Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point. The first project that Mark Sabb...