In her review of “The Unknown Notebooks” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, writer Erica Cardwell shares the following: “Basquiat’s notebooks share a metaphysical glimpse of the intuition of an artist whose intent was to live forever. They are profoundly expositional word collages teething on the pages of composition notebooks. In a notebook excerpt titled ‘A Prayer,’ Basquiat deconstructs the Biblical Genesis, replacing Adam and the spirit of the earth with nicotine and asbestos. This prayer does not mention God, instead speculating about the question of destiny. “It was good” stands firm as a quote from scripture, but Basquiat brands the words as if they were his own. It reads as it must have been recalled — sounds shaped by memory, words shaped by sounds. One observes the deliberate spacing, marking graceful entrances for inner monologue and self.” Artwork: Untitled Notebook Page, Cover - “The Notebooks” edited by Larry Warsh