Staff Pick: Widline Cadet, Si Ou Ta Dwe Bliye Wout Lakay Ou (Lè Tout Limyè Yo Etenn) (Should You Forget Your Way Home (When All The Lights Go Off)), 2021
Widline Cadet, Si Ou Ta Dwe Bliye Wout Lakay Ou (Lè Tout Limyè Yo Etenn) (Should You Forget Your Way Home (When All The Lights Go Off)), 2021. Archival inkjet print, artist frame, 40 × 32 in. Edition of 3 + 2 AP. Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee 2022.4a-b; courtesy the artist and Nazarian/Curcio. Photo: John Berens
Widline Cadet, Si Ou Ta Dwe Bliye Wout Lakay Ou (Lè Tout Limyè Yo Etenn) (Should You Forget Your Way Home (When All The Lights Go Off)), 2021. Archival inkjet print, artist frame, 40 × 32 in. Edition of 3 + 2 AP. Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee 2022.4a-b; courtesy the artist and Nazarian/Curcio. Photo: John Berens
Up until I was six years old, Myclette and Andria were my next-door neighbors—two sisters roughly the same ages as my older sister and me.
I hold deep-set images of ranging with them over the vast kingdom of our block, exploring the wilds of our Houston subdivision. Knowing now that our realm actually consisted of a path to the local pool and the untamable honeysuckle bushes in front of the sisters’ house does almost nothing to diminish the wonder in those memories. In Si Ou Ta Dwe Bliye Wout Lakay Ou (Lè Tout Limyè Yo Etenn), two young girls embark into the wilderness around them, moving toward a sharp corner that will inevitably change the trajectory of their adventure. The photograph conjures all the adventure of going around the corner with Myclette and Andria.