“A more expansive understanding of the journey home invites an imagination of a Black worldwhere Blackness exists in both quotidian and spectacular ways.”

IN AN ABANDONED GARAGE in downtown Houston, Solange Knowles steps in front of a vintage Cadillac with her arms outstretched, dressed in a diamond-encrusted fringe bikini, white cowboy boots, and a perfectly laid long black wig. Next to her, a dancer busts a split on a pole, and off in the distance, Black cowboys wait on the rails of a bullpen, watching their brothers in the saddle practice hypnotizing lasso tricks. These are the vignettes Knowles used to tease her fourth full-length album and accompanying interdisciplinary film, When I Get Home, on February 26, 2019, along with a tweet indicating where her eager audience could locate her—”find me on black planet !!”