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Loaded With History
African Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra is artwork by Kerry James Marshall. This work is the shape of Africa as a cubist sculpture.
it offers a complex meditation on African ancestry and black aesthetics. Africa Restored formally references the nkisi nkondi, or power figures, of the Democratic Republic of Congo. These sculptures were crafted as basic armatures into which accretions of metals, mirrors, and nails were driven to activate their force. – (Art Institute of Chicago)
Happy Juneteenth
June 19, 1865
It was the day African Americans found out the war was over.
It was the day they found out they were free.
After years of slavery, they were free.
There has been a celebration every year since.
It reminds us that our freedom date is different than their freedom date.
Freedom is fought for.
Rioters remind us of that this year.
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New Kind of Banner
Faith Ringgold’s Black Light Series #7 Ego Painting was created in 1969. Inspired by the textile designs of the Kuba Kingdom of Democratic Republic of the Congo, she addresses blackness as a color and an identity.
This is on exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Is Rage Really Funny
I watched Dave Chappelle this morning and I thought there is something in today’s circumstances that deeply affects us all. Chappelle did a short comedy show titled, 8:46 to speak to recent events of the death of George Floyd and the riots. The numbers signify the amount of time police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on the neck of George Floyd.
The comedian spoke through his pain and anger which was hardly funny but very true. It gave us a moment of new normal.
Chappelle pointed out that not everyone will respond to recent events the same way or at the same time. We have to give people space to process what is happening around us. We need to see the consequences of our neglect.
This art reflects the state of rage we are in. It is something that consumes us. How it is dealt with will determine if it is squelched or inflamed.
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