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Jesse Freeman: 'As far as a Black art scene goes … it’s just foreign or not.'

Jesse Freeman moved with his dad to Yokota Air Base when he was younger. Life on the base, he says, was a lot like life in America. | COURTESY OF JESSE FREEMAN

By Lance Henderstein
Contributing writer

Jun 9, 2023

Jesse Freeman, 38, is an American visual artist and writer living in Tokyo. His mediums include photography, filmmaking, collage and ikebana (flower arrangement). Jesse is a native of Baltimore, Maryland.

1. You are a multidisciplinary artist but how do you describe yourself? As nothing in particular.

2. What do you mean by “nothing in particular”? That I can do anything! So I do nothing in particular. It’s all the same idea. It all comes from an idea and then it goes to each (medium).

Jesse Freeman: 'As far as a Black art scene goes … it’s just foreign or not.'

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