love and light beams

a dose of arthur jafa for juneteenth

One of the best pieces of art produced in the past decade has to be Arthur Jafa’s “Love is the message, the message is Death.” I first stumbled upon the film at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art in 2018.

The film is a composite of found footage of Black Americans, including video of famous Black figures, video of the sun, movies, old film reels, B…