Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal

While the cinematic work of Erick Msumanje’s MFA thesis statement was completed in 2017 at UC San Diego, VOLTA VOLTA (VOLTA for short) presents in itself an opportunity to decode space in all forms, including perspective. This written work by Alexis Hithe, a friend and colleague, will serve as AN artist’s statement—if not THE artist’s statement—and a container for the two artists to reclaim the outdated, solitary space of “the artist’s statement” as a critical, collaborative one, more suitable to the collectivity of the Black creative spirit.