"For me an important reason for getting the motor going again was to drive something, to generate something," the artist said. "The last time time the motor was on, it was operating with people…
The soundscape evokes the labor involved in cotton production over two centuries with the churning of the rotor, the spindle's high whine, a faint, magical bell-like tinkling from somewhere unknown…
The prodigious thinker's conceptions of blackness and collaboration have been taken up by artists and curators engaged with politics, gender, and race.