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Some prep work for something coming up...based on a 1600 year old #Mayan jade burial mask #sketch #drawing #illustration #mesoamerica #tikal #ancientcivilization

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The geese were flying south this morning! Gave me the inspiration for my journal cover... #journal #spraypaint #stencils #handmade #recylcedpaper #montanacolors #migration #mikwchiyam #Mistissini #winteriscoming (at Cree Nation Mistissini)

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Yesterday was a good day for book mail!...Got a couple of copies of Michael Fraser's new #book of #poems called 'To Greet Yourself Arriving' which George Elliott Clarke calls "an event in Anglo-Canadian poetry" right on the cover so you know it's good (plus check that cover art)😆...and I got the #photobook I designed of my recent trip to #StLucia and it looks pretty sweet too...love seeing my work transferred to different formats👍👍👍 #books #print #photojournal #bae #artlife #create #michaelfraser #tightropebooks #canadianpoetry #africancanadian

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Focus on max.... #art #afrofuturist #aesthetic #ancientfuture

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Future is now.... #reupload #betterversion #sketchbook #art #latenightwork #midnightmauraders #inkdrawing #dystopian #futuristic #afrofuturism #humanvsmachine #singularity #scifi #scifiart #art #instagramart #igart #drawing

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4XSkwGIWtc)

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Pride mural painted Aug 24/2015 during Ottawa’s Pride celebration...my theme was celebrating intersectional identities within communities of colour...this mural goes along with a piece by Ottawa’s BlakCollectiv honouring the lives and names of murdered black and trans women of the past year. Its in downtown Ottawa at the corner of Bank and Somerset.

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This is proof of the racism in Ottawa. This mural has only been up a little over 24 hours.

*1st photo is not mine.*

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#sandrabland mural painted my Allan Andre and Kalkidan Assefa. 

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How Africa Would Look Like if its Borders Were Defined By Ethnicity and Language. By George Peter Murdock,1959

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the things they don’t want you to know. but there’s equality though right.

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Photographing the incredible and rare Spirit Bear aka Kermode bear along the Nisga'a Highway, British Columbia, Canada, April 16, 2014.

The Spirit Bear is a Black Bear with a white coat. The colouring is a result of a recessive gene that must be passed by both parents to cub and has been proven to aid in the bear's success at salmon fishing. There are estimated to be less than 400 Spirit Bears in the world, found exclusively in the area of BC's coast mountains known as the Great Bear Rainforest.

The bear's habitat is potentially under threat from the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, whose planned route passes the Great Bear Rainforest. The Spirit Bear is also known to the Kitasoo and T'simshian people as Moksgm'ol, and is a treasured symbol of peace and harmony. Few are ever lucky enough to lay eyes on one, especially in the wild.

This large male didn't seem at all bothered by us, and even posed for some great shots! Give Thanks! 

Respect to John Akpata for the video!

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24000ft above #kitimat ranges #coast #mountains #bc..effin beautiful!

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