FIG. 01 — THE ROSTER
The artists
Every hand on the platform, and the work each of them has open right now. A lot is one work in progress, listed at its first mark.
READING THE ROSTER…
FIG. 01 — ARTIST
Kojo Baptiste
Verified artistVERIFIEDSumi and ash · Accra
Sumi, ash and rabbit-skin ground. Journals every session, including the ones he loses.
Portfolio- OPEN NOW
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- IN THE RECORD
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FIG. 02 — THE WORK
FIG. 04 — THE RECORD
Kojo Baptiste writes the process down as it happens — sessions, materials, setbacks, and the parts that got scraped off. The entry stays up whatever the work becomes.
Day 41 — I scraped the whole left side back to the ground
Three weeks of work, gone in an afternoon with a palette knife and a wet rag. The left side had become an argument with the right side and only one of them was telling the truth.…
LOT 041 · KOJO BAPTISTE
NO IMAGE FOR THIS ENTRYNo photograph was attached to this entry.
Day 33 — What the collectors asked, and what I said back
Someone asked whether I would sign it if I destroyed the left side. I said the journal is the signature and the painting is just where the ink landed. They bid again an hour later.
LOT 041 · KOJO BAPTISTE
Day 17 — The under-drawing nobody will ever see
Charcoal, then a wash of ash over it, then sumi. By the time this closes the drawing will be four layers down and only the photographs will know it was there.
LOT 041 · KOJO BAPTISTE