This Elegance - Derrick Austin Fiction primarily by the shipbuilding firm

primarily by the shipbuilding firm Ramage & Ferguson

'I'd toast the moon and look at the sky

witty illustrations

reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds

but the tension is red-hot

This Elegance - Derrick Austin Fiction primarily by the shipbuilding firmInterweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue Kathleen Collins, Andr Leon Talley, Richmond Barth, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Mone, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits