Feeling and Falling in Arthur Jafa's Love is the Message, the Message is Death.

The article explores the video artwork "Love is the Message, the Message is Death," by the artist Arthur Jafa, who also did the cinematography for the 1991 film "Daughters of the Dust," by Julie Dash. The work explores what the author describes as white fetishism and "how black deat and black joy are pinned to one another by the white gaze." The rapid pacing of the video is discussed, which offers imagery from sources including police body cameras and Kanye West music videos.