Kayne’s Corner
Featuring works by Devon Kayne
Produced by Anansi Studios
Telfar x Devon Kayne
archives with telfar & timberland.
featuring the mid pull on telfar x timberland boots, the pink telfar jumbo thank you plastic bag, scans of the ruched elastic handles, tonal seams & interior on the black telfar liquor store plastic bag, silver telfar hoops & an archived portrait of a two vai women circa nineteen hundreds from the open library smithsonian archive.
inspired by anthropologist & princess of the vai people of liberia, fatima massaquoi fahbulleh & liberian american designer & founder of telfar; telfar clemens.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
ANTHOCYANIN
archived vintage portrait of xl, sixteen separate scans of various species of cowrie shells native to africa: gold ring cowrie, eroded cowrie, lynx cowrie, histrio cowrie, tiger cowrie, money cowrie, caurica cowrie, errones cowrie, ziczac cowrie, fimbriated cowrie, staphylaea cowrie, mole cowrie, map cowrie, nucleus cowrie, chickpea cowrie, labrolineata cowrie & one blood orange.
inspired by anythocynin, salivation, & the neurochemistry behind lust; specific to the d2 & d4 dopamine receptors.
@saintheron x saint heron digital archive library x @anansixstudios.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
Blue Voodoo
kinda speechless honestly, was just finishing these pieces this week, so today definitely feels surreal. the entire body of work & visuals for d’angelo’s second album voodoo, is actually what made me even want to pick up a camera or curate visuals in the first place.
a melody so specific in dialect & a demeanor that simply can’t be duplicated. sending so much warmth to imani & morocco. michael, angie, & d’angelo, may the clouds drip molasses & their harmonies reverberate thru the sky.
archived portrait of michael eugene archer x d’angelo, scans of the album art shot by thierry les goués in havana, cuba circa nineteen ninety nine for d’angelo’s voodoo album & a transparent scan of a jar of blue magic.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
Page Two Sixty Three
the eerie tillandsia usneoides, a plant native to humid subtropical climates of the deep south, including states specifically like louisiana, mississippi, & arkansas, portrait of winny nzeyimana with make up by kati fierkins, cover of assata by assata shakur, two blood oranges, two black carbon steel machetes, ogogoro libation offering, & sixteen separate scans of various species of cowrie shells native to africa: gold ring cowrie, eroded cowrie, lynx cowrie, histrio cowrie, tiger cowrie, money cowrie, caurica cowrie, errones cowrie, ziczac cowrie, fimbriated cowrie, staphylaea cowrie, mole cowrie, map cowrie, nucleus cowrie, chickpea cowrie, labrolineata cowrie.
inspired by page two sixty three of assata by assata shakur.
@saintheron x saint heron digital archive library x @anansixstudios.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
ODE 2 MISS MAJOR
miss major griffin gracy, I could write paragraphs of your duality & tenacity thru your time here, but instead I will simply let your energy alone radiate thru this portrait. if you know, you know. rest easy queen & sending so much love to everyone close & far.
archived portrait of miss major at the gilded grape, new york circa 1970, portrait of the apollo theater; originally during the 1960s, a popular attraction at the apollo theater was the jewel box revue, featuring performances from other artists such as stormé delarverie & of course the icon miss major. archived custom dress made by patrice for miss major that was worn while she was sitting on the back of a drop top coupe at the age of sixty eight during san francisco pride year two thousand fourteen, a true scorpio.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
Yemaya’s Whisper
archived portrait of three igbo women in nigeria circa 1921 & aweng chuol for mugler by dudi hasson.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
98 Acinom Benin
still of monica calhoun from the players club, archived portrait of yoruba woman from early 1800’s, transparent scan of raw cotton.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
The Quiet Trade
portrait of trade standing in the kitchen, transparent scan of camel thorns on the vachellia erioloba; a tree native to south africa, page 263 of assata by assata shakur; an affirmation titled “the tradition”.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.
S’AHSIEK REVENGE
alexander kosi for le naufrage by jean paul gaultier & ludovic de saint serrin shot by stuart winecoff for jean paul gaultier haute couture spring/summer two thousand twenty five, archived portraits of taral hicks as keisha in the film belly; released in nineteen ninety eight, with cinematography by malik hassan sayeed & directed by hype willams. scan of a bottle of florida water; originally created sixty three years before the thirteenth amendment & predominately used by african & afro caribbean peoples specifically in america who were forbidden from their ancestral practices. used as a cologne, offering, & believed to spiritually cleanse, it was even often subtly used in floor washes & cleaning linens in slaveowners homes thus intentionally morphing everyday task into ritual without detection.
wheat paste graphic on textured canvas, handmade & curated by devon kayne.