#conditionaltime

Black Painting, Kerry James Marshall

It Made Sense...Mostly In Her Mind, Amy Sherald

To write a play about “wake work” (1) and wake workers, time must be total, as total as the event that led to the necessity of this line of work in the first place. Event not “even close to being the right word,” becomes more adequately understood as a “durational field.” (2,3) Time--inadequately, a collection of events--turns into duration. Time becomes endurance. This, the act of enduring, is a condition. Condition demands reflection. How does one endure? Why does one keep enduring?

(1) Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being