Solomon Whitaker
Chicago, IL
Intermedia artist working across text, drawing and score-based systems.
MessageCollection: Murmurations: Capriccios
Murmurations: Capriccios—These works gather figures, marks, text, and notation into unstable formations that cluster, break, and re-form. The title joins two kinds of movement: murmuration as collective drift with sudden directional change, and capriccio as deviation, leap, and associative form.
Music, language, and drawing act here as overlapping systems, each pressing against the others without fully taking control. Repetition builds turbulence rather than clarity. Bodies multiply, flatten, brace, and dissolve into pattern.
What emerges is not a fixed scene, but a state of continual reorientation: a shifting field held together by motion, interruption, and change.
© Solomon Whitaker, 2026