Yet to be Born: Mettamodernist
Crafting stories that tell the diaspora of the black experience through absurd and surreal lenses, creative Mettamodernist created an AfroAbsurdist film.
Crafting stories that tell the diaspora of the black experience through absurd and surreal lenses, creative Mettamodernist created an AfroAbsurdist film.
- What is your name and how would you describe what you do?
Mettamodernist: Mettamodernist, I’m an AfroAbsurdist. I craft prose, poetry, lyrics and visuals that speak to the absurdity within the beauty and struggle of the black diaspora all at once.
- What's your background?
M: I’m a writer, graphic designer, creative director and stylist. I was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and started writing when I first fell in love with hip-hop as a three-year-old. I fell in love with fashion in my adolescence, and vowed to created stories in literature from the medium of fashion, film and hip-hop ever since. I have been focused on crafting stories that speak to the beauty and struggles of my people while simultaneously providing an absurd expression to which the narrative is told. So we started our own genre called AFROABSURDISM.
- What inspires you?
M: Hip-hop, my people, film, fashion, literature, Kanye West, Nick Knight, David Lynch, Jun Takahashi, Darren Aronofsky, John Galliano, Arthur Jaffa, Rick Owens, Frank Ocean, David Foster Wallace, Lauryn Hill, MF Doom, Blackthought, Jorge Luis Borges.
- What is the ambition behind your practice?
M: Writing stories that tell the diaspora of the black experience through absurd and surreal lenses.
- What did you hope to convey with your Bodies Of Knowledge film?
M: AfroAbsurdism.
