“I say blackness and not: black. Blackness isn’t black. It is the last degree of reds. The secret blood of reds. There are so many blacks…twenty four they say.” 24 color/text panels present the words of poet/philosopher Helene Cixous and span the spectrum between black and red, considering notions of blackness…as a color, as a symbol, as a perception and as written on the body politic.