Scrapyard by Senon Williams

  Hardcover, 146 pages10.5 in. x 8.25 in. | 26.67 cm. x 20.955 cm.   Senon Williams is a lifelong musician, visual artist and poet, born and currently based in Los Angeles. Descended from survivors of enslavement and the Holocaust, Williams is an artist whose practice is a response to scarcity and loss with a deep commitment to preservation. He is drawn to the physical scraps of life—and the layering of those scraps into a larger tapestry—and believes that these objects have souls. Assembling found pieces, large and small, sometimes literally from yards or the street, Williams collects unwanted things, used things, to create anew. A blending of the objects’ inner character with his own vision into an assemblage, not only of the physical but also of the spirit. Williams’ work is grounded with a love of language play, sounds, textures, and associations of word and object. Working in various media in his visual art practice—sculpture, painting, serigraph and printmaking—Williams counters