ABSTRACT
The children of Vicissitudes have travelled, moving first from sculptor deCaires Taylor’s terrestrial working space on Grenada to its western seabed, topographically held by the cupped palm of Moliniere Bay. Mathematics Black Life surveys “the knowable” and “the untold” insofar as these poles are affirmed by scientific archival evidence of the histories of the Middle Passage and the plantation. “The death toll becomes the source” when the only records from which to remember and retrieve black history are the registers of enslavement, of anti-black violence and murder. Proceeding from the foundation of McKittrick’s crucial cautionary criticism, the attempt a reading of Vicissitudes’ science and creativity as a tribute to the Middle Passage. Coral reefs are thought to be the home of a third of the world’s marine species, but climate change and the exploitation of the ocean by humankind threatens to destroy 80% of them by 2050.
