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textile piece sourcing info:

Diedrick Brackens (American, born 1989). when no softness came, 2019. Cotton twine and threads, acrylic yarns, polyester thread (possible), dyes, 98 1/2 × 101 1/2 in. (250.2 × 257.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum. Photo: courtesy of Various Small Fires L.A.

displayed as part of the 2021-2022 exhibit The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time.

according to the exhibit copy, the piece is "Responding, in part, to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the hypervisibility of black death; Brackens sought alternative ways of understanding black bodies through acts of leisure and repose [...] Inspired by stories of historical and contemporary Black cowboys, when no softness came reimagines the trope of heroic male victors riding on horseback by illustrating a moment of respite and ease. Like many of Diedrick Brackens’s weavings, this scene of intimacy and tenderness creates personal mythologies that center queer Black identity." (x, x)

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