ATOMIC i

ATOMIC i begins at a detonation site and spirals outward into an investigation of the lyric “i,” to ask, what persists after annihilation? Turning the the blast inward—from redlining itself to “trying to stretch i into they”—Dior J. Stephens casts selfhood as both the site and the survivor of annihilation in a cycle of destruction and return. Stephens draws on the supernatural registers of Dante’s Inferno, the Bhagavad Gita, and Count Basie’s Orchestra to unearth a voice that relentlessly manifests itself amongst the fallout of remembrance.