"My underlying intention was to liberate Blackness from the boundaries placed upon it by a particular set of contemporary social and economic constraints. Maybe on some level my project hasn’t changed, but in my current work [Space Notations], blackness is no longer particular to race or place, but is rather about the expansiveness of space itself and of the human spirit." (Cullen Washington Jr. quoted in Juliette Harris, “Cullen Washington On Surpassing Boundaries To Enter a Land Beyond Words," International Review of African American Art, March 2015)