Showing posts with label black art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black art. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2009

? In who's image...In my image?


Branded Head © Hank Willis Thomas
(Hank Willis Thomas tells a story. From a brilliant perspective. With wit. With ingenuity. With flare and creativity. His vision and visuals stops and arrests us on the expressway of human stereotype. What are we thinking? What are we missing? What are we really seeing? What are we really creating? Hank Willis Thomas tells us, as all messengers should. With honesty and spirit.)

There are so many ways to see me, know me, experience me, filter me, hate me, love me, respect me, ignore me, silence me, celebrate me, laugh at me, enjoy me, create me, blame me, worship me, praise me, f*ck me, idolize me, dismiss me, exploit me, heal me, destroy me and hold me. What is your choice? What is my hope? What is our fate? (L. Pollard)

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

#5 - "down" by gender...

"The virgin martyr st. cecilia"
© kehinde wiley 2008


Where is the danger?
Somewhere in the light of my perceptive fears?
Somewhere in the shadows of my unexperienced experience?
Somewhere in the dark mysteries of another?

Where is the danger?
Somewhere beyond my accepted 'space'?
Somewhere in the unknown existences that are not my own?
Somewhere in the 'blackness' of other?

Where truly is the danger?
Safe on the pyre of my unexamined indifference to myself.


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