Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s concept of "rethinking aesthetics" and Andrea Fatona’s "undulating depths of fields," Katherine McKittrick theorize the charcoal drawings of artist Charmaine Lurch as "unwieldy and provisional moments of joy." Press materials explain, "Rather than exalting Black joy, the paper will demonstrate how Lurch’s aesthetic decisions visually gesture Blackness as a location of entanglement, one that captures brief moments of happiness—relief, actually—and nests them within the broader context of racial violence, colonialism, and extraction."