Yusef Lateef

Besides being a legendary jazz musician, Lateef (1920–2013) made art, including the selection here of works on paper made with watercolor, pen, ink, graphite and glitter. In some cases, Lateef created his compositions by pooling ink onto the surface, using a straw to blow it into different forms. The results are surreal and fantastical and certainly relate to Lateef's self-styled "autophysiopsychic" music, which he described as coming from the "physical, mental and spiritual self."