Intermissions | Pamela Woolford: Antoine and Me
A surreal love story by Pamela Woolford, Antoine and Me is a multimedia project that includes handmade photo albums and the emergence of a new art form—which Pamela Woolford originates—sound-designed photo narrations or SDP narrations. In this first SDP narration series, Woolford models as a character who is in love with the photographer who takes the photographs. For seven photographs from the shoot, Woolford has written and performs, in the voice of the character, descriptions of each photograph in sound-designed audio tracks. She sets her Antoine and Me narrations in an ambiguous time period with elements of the past, an alternate present, or an imagined future, creating a new form of Afrofuturism. She is inspired by photo albums and scrap books created by her paternal grandmother, Gertrude Woolford, which, long after Gertrude Woolford has passed on, serve as a documentation and glimpse into her once life as a spirited, young Black woman in Baltimore a hundred years ago. The two oversized Antoine and Me handmade photo albums contain about 60 photographs from the series, as artwork representing the quotidian beauty of photo albums, including those of our Black ancestors.
