TAR BABY CODE
A font to transform racial trauma
This body-based font is rooted in the artist’s history as a professional dancer, it challenges the viewer to oscillate between text and figuration. Tar Baby Code, as the font is called, takes its name from the classic African-American folk tale in which a trickster rabbit outwits a fox who has laid a sticky trap for him. This font asks the viewer to engage with the history of Black resistance through literacy and coded vernacular. Employed in statements of gratitude, observation, protest, and exhortation it renders legible the Black female figure’s expressive force as a site of such resistance.
TAR BABY CODE allows me to be flawed, indiscriminate...reckless even
