Reparations Now ! , 2021
48 x 40 x 0.5 in (h x w x d)
12120 USD
# Acrylic on wood panel
for sale
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The wallpaper of this painting is made up of aged paper with the transatlantic ship full of enslaved people printed on top. I was drawn to this image for a few reasons: At first glance, it is beautiful until you look closer, like history itself. Secondly, the ship resembles church windows which harkens one's mind to religion and God. Which I think is apropos, since money seems to be the only lasting religion in America...the most followed, the most revered. People kill in the name of money. Enslaved millions of my people in the name of making cash but we will not go quietly into the night. Someone is going to pay. The former masters and all who profited on the backs of enslaved people, including the government who taxed the goods the enslaved people tilled, cultivated, and gathered. The cotton was used to clothe not only people in the US but people all throughout Europe. The sugar cane my ancestors gathered in the hot, unforgiving sun in Louisiana, was enjoyed by millions and now it is time to pay. Pay for our trauma, our pain, the inequity brought on by hundreds of years of chattel slavery. 246 years. Reparations Now! is a painting about long-overdue justice.
Original Created:2021
Subjects: Political
Styles: Figurative/Fine Art/Collage
Mediums: Wood/Acrylic/Paper
Featured Audio : Richard Wright's book "12 Million Black Voices" and the song is by Alice Coltrane from her album Journey In Satchidananda.

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