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CARLETTA CARRINGTON WILSON: POEM OF STONE & BONE: MAKE HER OF MYSTERY.
African-American/Black History Month is a designated time to remember people and events in the history of the African diaspora. Last year Raven Chronicles Press published POEM OF STONE & BONE, The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days, by Carletta Carrington Wilson. This book honors the art-filled legacy and life of Mississippi-born and Seattle-based Artist, James W. Washington Jr (1909-2000). Below is a chapter from the book.

I have to know the animal or individual before I can sculpt them. Not just know his features but feel them. I have to be him. Not until I get to the point where I am the animal can I release the spiritual force into the inanimate material and animate it. When this happens, I feel like I’m working with flesh rather than just stone. —James W. Washington Jr.

POEM OF STONE & BONE: MAKE HER OF MYSTERY
BY CARLETTA CARRINGTON WILSON.