Liquid liberation: artist Torkwase Dyson on her aquatic obsession

From the transportation of slaves across the Atlantic to the drowning of a teenager at Lake Michigan, the artist explores how water connects to Black history – and now she’s looking inside the human bodyTorkwase Dyson likes to be near water. “I look for it,” she says, “whether it’s a river, a lake or the ocean. I prefer to be in an environment that has those things.” The Brooklyn-based artist has long been concerned with how such watery spaces connect to