99% NO.74 David 2013

Curator: Let's turn our attention to Sedrick Huckaby's drawing, "99% NO.74 David," currently residing here at the Harvard Art Museums. Editor: There's such intimacy to it, like a fleeting sketch from a personal notebook, imbued with a pensive mood. Curator: Huckaby's use of line is particularly striking. Notice the density and layering, almost like a web. The inscription above the figure's head—"I think they caught the one who did it…Me and Big E were good friends"—creates a poignant contrast with the portrait's quiet introspection. Editor: It's amazing how handwriting itself can carry so much weight. The phrase transforms the image into a meditation on community and consequence, memories and potential guilt. Curator: Indeed. It makes me consider how the portrait and the inscription, though simple, create a complex symbolic narrative. Editor: It certainly lingers, doesn't it? Something to consider long after you've moved on to the next work.