With Grace African women is often a scary ordeal

is often a scary ordeal

I try to capture that dynamic in all its endless permutations

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James Baldwin was at once a perpetual optimist and an unflinching critic when it came to American culture

The beauty of the innocence is unmatched

With Grace African women is often a scary ordeal12x12 mixed media on wood panel Movement is freedom. The expression of art in the body is universal. Expansive. Unconfined and undefinable. The grace with which we move is narrative. Its a way to speak our emotions with our limbs. Even during slavery. Battered, bruised, overworked, and despised, we still found a way to move our bodies. We were artists creating art from the fields to the outhouse. We moved to work. We moved to survive. We moved to