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GERMAN ETCHING PAPER
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The concept of this came from a Lupe Fiasco song called “All Black Everything” and I wanted to create a false memory where Gordon Parks took a photo of my 5 favorite civil rights and black leaders in a different reality. Things like the Transatlantic slave trade never happened, therefore American slavery never happened. James Baldwin didn’t have to leave North America because of his ethnicity and sexuality and wrote prolific novels in his home in Harlem NY. Malcolm X was never shot down in the Audubon Ballroom and built up the Muslim communites and united people around the world. Martin Luther King Jr. united the labor forces and ended poverty in the US and created a model for the world and lived to see his grandchildren. Ali kept his Belt and retired a champ and never suffered from Alzheimer’s in old age. Maya Angelou went on to become a prolific poet without the hinderance of Jim Crow and childhood trauma.
Gordon Parks wins best picture for Shaft in April 1972 and the emergence of graffiti in the early 1970s is seen as high art and is shown around the world in train stations and art galleries alike.
We could all use a little more
Love, Grace and Integrity
16x12
GERMAN ETCHING PAPER
SIGNED SEALED AND NUMBERED
WHILE SUPPLIES LAST
The concept of this came from a Lupe Fiasco song called “All Black Everything” and I wanted to create a false memory where Gordon Parks took a photo of my 5 favorite civil rights and black leaders in a different reality. Things like the Transatlantic slave trade never happened, therefore American slavery never happened. James Baldwin didn’t have to leave North America because of his ethnicity and sexuality and wrote prolific novels in his home in Harlem NY. Malcolm X was never shot down in the Audubon Ballroom and built up the Muslim communites and united people around the world. Martin Luther King Jr. united the labor forces and ended poverty in the US and created a model for the world and lived to see his grandchildren. Ali kept his Belt and retired a champ and never suffered from Alzheimer’s in old age. Maya Angelou went on to become a prolific poet without the hinderance of Jim Crow and childhood trauma.
Gordon Parks wins best picture for Shaft in April 1972 and the emergence of graffiti in the early 1970s is seen as high art and is shown around the world in train stations and art galleries alike.
We could all use a little more
Love, Grace and Integrity
