In The First and Last Score, Lonnie Holley brings together a characteristically diverse set of objects — shoe moulds, found wooden frames, a sheet of punched card for organ music — to bear on ideas of survival, destiny, and personal creativity. On one side of the sculpture, shoe moulds seem to race each other down a staircase, evoking the clattering sound of heels striking steps; an adjacent panel frames found sheets of organ music, designed to allow the instrument to play itself in perpetuity. In American vernacular slang, a 'score' can refer to both a successfully executed crime and a piece of sheet music. By fusing these two meanings, Holley connects histories of racialised inequality and criminalisation with his own expansive, improvisational approach to making music.