Birth of the Blues ARTISTS_Quentin Moseley It’s like seeking one’s axis

It’s like seeking one’s axis mundi or a single tune with several improvised arrangements

the painting process

This print is based on a series of drawings derived from turn off the century (early 20th) photos of African American residents of Anniston

led by the USSR

Woodcut CNC

Birth of the Blues ARTISTS_Quentin Moseley It’s like seeking one’s axisBirth of the Blues, 2025 Woodcut Edition of 10 14 x 14 in. Collaborative Printer: Alexis Nutini Birth of the Blues (14 x 14) returns to one of the most charged images in Willie Cole's practice of the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, the Clotilda. Cole had acquired a high resolution image through the Getty and began working with it first as a sculpture, then as a print. The sculpture was part of a 2022 exhibition at