Movements Like a Verse Unwritten
Artist: Boxx the Artist
Medium: Mixed media
Measurements: Three 24”x36” panels
c. 2025
Movements Like a Verse Unwritten is a visual meditation on the beauty of becoming – a layered exploration of movement, spirit and the ever-evolving nature of identity. This mixed-media painting is rooted in original photography taken from my series The Women in Between, capturing the fluid motion of a Black woman in dance. Her name is Faith, and her body speaks in rhythm, emotion and ancestral memory. Through this piece, I honor her motion as more than choreography – I see it as language, vibration and presence. This work lives in the space between form and feeling. It blends realism and abstraction, stillness and energy. With expressive brushstrokes, raw textures and vivid color, I invite viewers to witness a story in motion – one that resists finality. Much like a verse that continues to write itself with each breath and beat, this piece embodies the idea that true creative expression is never truly finished. It evolves, flows, connects and continues.
Inspired by the freedom and honesty found in jazz, spoken word, modern dance and performing arts, Movements Like a Verse Unwritten is not just a painting – it is a pulse, a witness, a celebration of those unspoken moments when art becomes a mirror of the soul. It is about the journey of expression – not its arrival – and how we, as artists and observers, are always in process, forever evolving.
Housed in the Payne & Mencias Palladium’s South Lobby for a year, this work will be a quiet, yet powerful presence in a space designed for performance and community. It’s my hope that those who pass by it will feel seen, moved, or even briefly inspired to consider their own internal rhythm – to ask what’s still unwritten in them.
– Boxx the Artist
About the Artist
Originally from Gary, Indiana, Boxx the Artist is an award-winning visual artist based in Indianapolis and named 2024 Artist of the Year by Noblesville Creates. With a dual degree from Purdue University, she brings a unique fusion of academic insight and creative expression to her work, using her work as a vehicle for research and study. Specializing in expressionistic portraiture, her art explores systems and structures of identity and emotion through dynamic compositions. Her work has been featured in exhibitions including the Black Creativity Juried Exhibit 2022 and 2023 (Chicago Museum of Science and Industry) and the 26th African American Art Exhibition (Roanna H. Victor Gallery at Actors Theatre of Louisville). She also was honored as a 2023 and 2024 Hoosier Women Artist by the Indiana Lt. Governor, with two consecutive one-year art installations in the Indiana State House.
About New Works
New Works: An Arts Commission Project is an initiative by Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts to promote and sustain central Indiana’s working artists and arts communities in an inclusive way by supporting the creation of new works across all performing arts disciplines.
