In Rhythm by Angela Pilgrim. Published by Du-Good Press, 2026.
"In Rhythm", 12 in x 16 in, 14 Color Screen print on 320gsm Coventry Rag with Deckled Edge, Variable Edition of 20, 2026. Available through Du-Good Press: du-goodpress.com/angelapilgrim
About the Edition
The print centers on hand clapping games, the kind passed down on playgrounds and stoops, learned body to body, never written down. The hands in “In Rhythm” are caught mid-motion, overlapping in the gesture of play, vessels of a tradition that traces back to West African ludic practices and has traveled across geographies and generations. Ethnomusicologist Kyra D. Gaunt has described this through the framework of kinetic orality: the way orality and embodied meaning work together in Black musical life. In Rhythm takes that seriously. These game-songs are scholarship conducted outside institutional walls. Black girlhood is not at the margins of cultural history here, rather, it's at the generative center.
The shapes in this print were cut from Rubylith, a masking film. We printed the bookbinding cloth texture both under and over the figures, so there's a sense of layering and surface that you feel even before you consciously notice it.
The color choices were intentional: soft, warm pastels that blend and shift opacity through the layers. Working with Leslie on the design decisions was one of the most meaningful parts of this process. We were in conversation the whole time, honoring the spirit of what In Rhythm is about while making sure this edition had its own feel.
