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Yours truly at the Ohio State University to give a lecture on Friday.
Courtesy Dr. Adeleke Adeeko
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Yours truly at the Ohio State University to give a lecture on Friday.
Courtesy Dr. Adeleke Adeeko
Jetlagged.
From Heathrow Airpot to Austin Airport.
This is one of the paintings I just discovered in my garage.
The painting celebrates Robert Hayden’s poem, “Middle Passage.”
It is a really long poem.
The painting focuses on this excerpt:
“That Crew and Captain lusted with the comeliest
of the savage girls kept naked in the cabins;
that there was one they called The Guinea Rose
and they cast lots and fought to lie with her: ”
The character across the floor of the ship being whipped to consent is the lady called Guinea Rose in the poem.
Title: Gift of Love
Medium: Bodypainting, photography.
Date: 2019
Well, since Facebook won’t let me show you anything that a baby can’t see, I will show you glimpses of the fun we artists have with the human figure.
After I painted her,
she looks down at me
and asks me
what is the meaning
Those who love you
often don’t let you know;
you may discover their love
in their whispers, looks or gestures.
But it is those who hate you
that shout hostility at you loud and clear.
The fellow hiding in this picture is easy to find, right