Behold

Born of the poet’s longstanding love of visual art, especially painting, Behold examines why we love what we love, and how we see (and are seen) by art. When we say we “saw” something, McCallum asks, what is it that we saw—outside of us, and within?

Over two years spent working on this book, McCallum traveled to museums in the U.S. and abroad with the explicit goal of standing before works of art created by contemporary Caribbean, Black, and women artists. The resulting collection works to ...