Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Missy — Archival Photo

Missy Elliott's career took her from Portsmouth, Virginia to global stages — and back. Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement.: Missy maps that trajectory using the physics concept of displacement: how far did she travel, and how close did she stay to where she started? The answer becomes a long-exposure light drawing, photographed at gallery scale.

Part of the MDMD series — data visualization as fine art photography, applied to hip-hop biography. Archival print, edition of 5. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and ships rolled in a wide archival tube.

Edition of 5. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Ships rolled in a wide archival tube.

A work by Tahir Hemphill — Creative Capital Grantee, Harvard W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fellow, and artist whose work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.