EJ HILL - the imagery of this exhibition– mountains, clouds, ascensions–insists on the importance of representations of marginalized bodies in places of elevation. We find here a telling of the story of Blackness with light and affirmation; not as a denial of the pain of existence, but as an approach for addressing and healing it.NEHA CHOKSI - Both “Leave of absence” and the previous iteration, “Absence without leave,” employ identical stratagem of digital removal of the human body to re-render figureless tableaux in graphite prior to adopting various methods of display: enlarged photographs of the drawings, draped print fabric sculpture, framed drawings hung on a mural. NEHA CHOSKI