Opening the episode with The Four Tracks’ “Charade” is a poignant way to frame the journey that not only Kevin but also Dan and Drew are going through at this time in their lives.
The musical cues in this episode truly bring the arc together, so I have to give a shoutout to music supervisor Qiana Conley, whose resume speaks for itself. Kevin is slowly coming to that realization and working to identify what means more to him. In an ideal world, you would position yourself as the exact opposite of that and maintain your integrity but when it comes to the arts, integrity can often be a synonym for poverty. As a writer, the push for the #OwnVoices movement in book publishing, while well intended, has at times led to a caricature performance of identity in literature that, when not vetted, has allowed terrible books to go to market or books whose authors misrepresent their heritage to justify their participation in the exploitative practice.
#REGRESS SYNONYM PROFESSIONAL#
It would be presumptive for me to say that the character of Nneka Stevenson (Joyelle Nicole Johnson), Kevin’s professional idol and motivation for entering his fellowship, is based around Walker the fact of the matter is, trajectories such as these are more common than you would think, across creative industries.
While her early work wasn’t race forward, the works that made her a household name in the fine arts world invoked unsettling - and some would even say grotesque - visuals of racial history, and the tensions introduced by those controversies entrenched her position in the white establishment, often at the odds of her pioneers in Black art. Her voice, also, had a very particular arc as she rose in notoriety. In reality, however, Walker has an MFA and a MacArthur Genius grant and is the child of a fine-arts professor herself.
#REGRESS SYNONYM HOW TO#
You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.” It’s a stirring sentiment on its face, intended to offer motivation for any budding creator. It’s not like becoming a doctor or something. Multidisciplinary artist Kara Walker is famously credited as saying, “There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist.
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