Acrylic paint, the medium that is used in most elementary classrooms. So of course I used acrylic quite a lot when I was younger. Now, I realize how powerful the medium is and I get to use it in ways I didn’t know about before. It’s such a wonderful medium that can work in mysterious ways. I’m so thankful for it and what it has done for me. At the end of the day it is paint, but paint is still so powerful.
HEAR THEM WAIL, 2024 (Acrylic on Canvas) While I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, I could feel the presence of my ancestors ⏤ their cries, their screams for help. I could smell their feces. I felt where they once stood, in that dark place, under the church, where the white people lived without a care in the world. Hear them. Hear them wail.
GRAMMY, 2024 (Acrylic on Paper)
SPRING FLOWERS, 2023 (Acrylic on Canvas)