SeaBorne
SeaBorne
acrylic on canvas
36×48″
2021
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SeaBorne
acrylic on canvas
36×48″
2021
In front of my latest work, titled GOLD MINE
Terrachroma on canva
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Wither Wakanda?
Installation
2016 to present.
Three weeks of painting. It started as a butterfly.
Could Black life matter,
without Black thoughts
and values mattering?
The indigenous African traditions
cannot breathe:
invasive viral forces
have placed their morbid knees
on the throats of indigenous African philosophy,
science, pedagogy, technology,
Why the Art Museums Are Closed
A dialogue with Africa
about the ancestral images
that the West looted
from the continent is inevitable.
Without this dialogue,
all the museums in the world,
all the art galleries,
all the exhibition spaces,
are uninhabitable spaces
After I painted her,
she looks down at me
and asks me
what is the meaning