In late July we visited Adler Guerrier in his home in Miami. While in quarantine, he captures the awakening of the nature on his porch every day. Combined with sourced or his own textual materials, they become his quarantine diary reflecting on loss, mourning, blackness, and life.

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In August Adler Guerrier completed a two-part billboard claimed for living, for love and trouble, produced by Miami Design District and For Freedoms. Installed on The Moore Building, (intersection of NE 2 Avenue and 40 Street, Miami).

A work composed of text, design, and images, assembled to configure a place of everyday Miami textures, rendered to hold an apt imaginary in support of the ranges within Black social life.

Here is a place claimed for the purpose of living, fashioned to engender love, fortified to protect its inhabitants and to withstand the spectres of trouble.

We live here.

We live informed by the poetics of immigrant culture, Caribbean tendencies, Black diasporic experience, and strengthened by the forcefulness of radical traditions that prepared us to imagine, and to claim the conditions we need to live with dignity.

Photo by Luis Gomez/ LG Media group Co.