Sonia Louise Davis:
Slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one)

Sonia Louise Davis, is a featured artist in Pass Carry Hold MoMA PS1's 6th Studio Museum Artists in Residence. The exhibition sets out to engage methodologies of endurance and wonder to explore themes related to ancestral and intuitive knowledge.

Her "Soft Paintings" and other work, part of  Pass Carry Hold, are currently on view at MoMA PS1. Davis takes a holistic and multi-sensory approach to her work exploring improvisation, sycopation and self expression. Hallmarks of the Black Radical Traditions in Abstract Expressionism and Jazz. This book is a collection of texts from five years of writing and thinking on the concept of improvisation, provides an incredible insight into her artistic practice through manifestos, scores, poetic essays and prose poems. 

Davis's book Slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one) further explores this, as an invitation to slow down and reconsider our place in the world in a patient, compassionate and collective way. Davis' writing blends personal reflection with big picture thinking. This book will stay with you, as a gentle nudge towards a more thoughtful, intentional way of moving through the world.

Self published by Co-conspirator Press with the support of Feminist Center for Creative Work. Designed by MJ Balvanera, Riso-printed by Neko Natalia, 2020 | 5" x 7.5", 86 pages | Perfect bound | Edition of 500