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AALIYAH — PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAYSON KEELING FOR THE FADER ISSUE 054, 2008.

@jayson_keeling @matthewdayjackson @rashaadnewsome @elcleonardo @tulsaartistfellowship @davidcastillogallery @the_breeder_gallery Today, I lost an old friend.  I haven't been able to fully articulate it.  I have been watching old videos and revisiting that time.  I was just telling someone last night that I miss my youth.  I was talking about my twenties and early thirties.  I met Jayson Keeling shortly after I moved to NYC.  When I didn't have a place of my own and was renting a room up in Harlem, he let me sleep on his couch plenty of nights and assisted me in creating my videos.  I was literally working my way out of some dark moments and he was there to help.  R.I.P. Jayson 🙏🏾 1.  This was at one of my birthday parties at my friend Susanna Vapnek's apartment.  Matthew Day Jackson, Me, Jayson, and Rashaad Newsome 2.  KK Queens Survey, 2005.  Jayson co-starred. 3-6.  Conversations Wit De Churen III:  Da Young and Da Mess, 2005.  The scenes with me as Taiwan was shot in Jayson's apartment. And his photography is in the background, helping tell the story. 7.  Conversations Wit De Churen IV:  Play Wit De Churen, 2005. Jayson's bedroom was Katonya's first live/work space. 8-10.  Jayson Keeling and Kalup Linzy, Dorothy Dean, The Gilded Grape, April 1977, 2005 #jaysonkeeling #rip #kaluplinzy #collaborations #friends #artists #contemporaryartists #2022tulsaartistfellow #2022tulsaartistfellowship #conversationswitdechuren #conversations #kkqueenssurvey #2005 (at New York City, N.Y.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdcX9LPM6iw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My most prized posession. Original Aaliyah by Jayson Keeling #jaysonkeeling #aaliyah #theone