Aster of CeremoniesJJJJJerome Ellis 'In Aster of Ceremonies, JJJJJerome Ellis shows how an involuntary stoppage can become a baptism, an infinite offering. Accompanying our formerly enslaved and sometimes speechless, our fleeing and sometimes stuttering ancestors, Ellis acknowledges how the surrender, the space where the voices we would raise in the services of liberation, instead 'fall to their knees, ' opening space for interspecies eldership, fugitive kinship.