See if you can count the multitudes in these self-portraits by Clifford Prince King
Ian F. Blair
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The work of Clifford Prince King has the intimacy of a conversation on the front porch with a cup of tea. His portraits welcome you with an averted gaze, like “Come in, and close the door behind you,” or with the sincerity of a stare: “I recognize.”
King, who is queer and Black, is interested in experiences — of connection, of longing, of memory, of masculinity. He's a tactician of tenderness: Touch, desire, spirit, mood are rendered delicately; nothing ever feels forced. A person’s energy is lucid. A kitchen fade makes sense on its own terms.
For this project, King was asked to turn the lens inward for a series of self-portraits. Excavation, typically, isn't achieved with one stroke; you chip away to reveal what's been there all along. In these works, King does just that. The tradition of self-portraiture is about unpacking the layers of the self and one’s surroundings. It’s about finding one’s location, location, location in time and space. Here, he is. — Ian F. Blair
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