mayfield brooks

Whale Fall Part 3, Entanglement: Touch My Hair Gently by mayfield brooks and Camilo Restrepo

July 14, 2023

mayfield at the beach, laying on their side, atop a piece of whale.

2022-2023 Renewal Residency Artist, mayfield brooks performed at DraftWork on April 29, 2023. As an extension of the performance, mayfield created and printed a zine, created with, and designed by Camilo Restrepo. Please enjoy the digital copy below. Optimal viewing… Read more

고래사냥 Whale seeking and loving in my darkness by Gyun Hur

August 10, 2022

A sepia-colored photograph of a wave crashing shoreline frames an overlaid image in the center, it is the same image colored differently in white, charcoal, and blue hues. Onto the photo, a pen drawing of mayfield brooks (dancing in Sensoria: An Opera Strange) is walking across the rocky shore with their arms outstretched and their hair hanging in front of their face.

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and respond. The following piece is the last of 3 offerings from Hur, in response to the Platform, and includes words, images, and poetics prompted… Read more

Video Postcard #2: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

July 21, 2022

Videographer and editor lex moh presents the second of two video “Post Cards” from Platform 2022. Post Card #2 features video clips and photos from mayfield brooks’, Sensoria: An Opera Strange, the Platform opening event, “Conversations Without Walls: The… Read more

Sensoria: a zine by mayfield brooks and duskin drum

June 9, 2022

A mixed media artwork on white deckled watercolor paper, in the mediums of watercolor, pencil, butterfly pea flower tea, watercolor pencil, colored pencil, china marker, ink. A vertical composition centered on a periwinkle border with a bottom text that reads “A poem by Mayfield Brooks. Illustrations by Caedron Burchfield” A geometric-abstract oceanscape, with a distinct horizon line in blue and white, that bisects the the piece just below center. Across the top, hand stamped black capital letters read, “Whale Fall”. The text is bookended with two circles- a white moon on the left, a sulphuric neon yellow sun on the right. A grey wash of sky is blotted with puddles of black gradients. The sky is arced by a neon orange crescent, at the center of which is a red triangle pointing upright with a line across it. Below the horizon line in the sea is a wash of ocean blue gradients with a neon blue triangle at the center pointing down above a simplified drawing of a piano keyboard in black and white. On the horizon there are four interlocking circles at their radii like a compass, in gradient washes of butterfly pea flower tea- a grayish purple color. On the east-west axis it forms a vesica piscis, the center of which creates a mandorla, an almond like shape and a symbol of the whale. Half is black and the other white. Red outlined triangles frame the foreground and evoke cliff like beaches. Ovals to the bottom left and right are filled in with primary neon colors on the left, and gradient shades of butterfly pea flower tea on the right

Sensoria is a zine by mayfield brooks made in collaboration with designer and contributing writer, duskin drum. This zine is a companion piece to mayfield brook’s live performance Sensoria: An Opera Strange (June 9-11), presented by Danspace Project as… Read more

PLATFORM 2022 Schedule of Events

May 5, 2022

A portrait of two men smiling on the beach. On the left, a white man with dark hair pulled back leans in, sunlight streaming across his face. to the right, a black man with short dark hair and freckles reaches forward to take the shot. iele takes a selfie on a ferry boat. iele is a white genderqueer person with dark curls and eyes. They wear a large fur-lined hood and wire-rimmed glasses, and look content with a subtle closed-mouth smile. Their lips are a bit rosy from the cool air. In the background, there is the East River and NY city skyline at sunset. The colors in the sky range from pale blue to light orange, with a couple of soft grey clouds. The water reflects the light from the sky in ripples. A dark skinned Black femme with a short afro is pictured in front of a grey concrete wall. Her arms are extended out past her side while she leans in the opposite direction.mayfield, in a dark theater wailing with their eyes closed, arm reaching above them, gripping the concrete wall behind them.

APRIL 23 Conversations Without Walls: The Dream of the Artist 12PM-1:30PM ET APRIL 28-30 Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age Thursday, April 28, 4-8PM ET Friday, April 29, 4-8PM ET Saturday, April 30, 2-6PM ET … Read more

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