99% NO.53Sedrick 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

The format issues

The faces of three children

in the growth measurements of the economy

How does one document these experiences that you go through

but as it devoured the sailboat we dove into the water

My work has always been connected to creating images that could be purposeful

Its layering of ink mirrors the layering of meaning

The organic fluid grid keeps the viewer separated from the female dog that is alone and meltingunder the hot sun

The photograph and the heart connotea vulnerability regardless of the pretty surrounding which is in constant movement

Ritual and the repetitiousmovement of the ceremony can purify the mind as they give peaceful and spiritual moments

In 1979 I was crewing on a small sailboat

A clown stands in front of a crowd of his own peers—fellow clowns