This beautiful man. I loved making this piece of art. His hair— the nebula in the distance. He was a powerful, idea-shattering human being because he made people question their ideas of what it meant to be Black in America. A true artivist.

Below is an excerpt from an interview of Charles R. Cross. A Seattle-based music journalist. He's the author of "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.

"What might Hendrix would have to say about our current national scene?

Everyone who lived in the '60s, there’s certainly an idea of deja vu. The idea that we have mobs marching in Charlottesville with tiki torches, this is something that people in the '60’s feel like we’re done with as a country, we settled these issues.
And yet I think the topic of race was layered into everything Jimi Hendrix did. Even in England, which was a more progressive place, he was harassed occasionally by police for having a white girlfriend. Here was a guy who felt music was not about race, he didn’t write"'black” music; he wrote music.

And he didn’t play only to one kind of fan. Primarily his audiences were white, unfortunately, but to Hendrix, race was something he was always trying to escape from, and yet could never actually escape from."

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