A man is unstoppable
moves the pieces
His tools, your rules
His teachers - those you
Discarded
Costume authority
Party ghost
Entity quarantine
Blind truth
Profiteers from pain
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A man is unstoppable
moves the pieces
His tools, your rules
His teachers - those you
Discarded
Costume authority
Party ghost
Entity quarantine
Blind truth
Profiteers from pain
Mató a su bebé de 3 meses, para que dejara de llorar
Mató a su bebé de 3 meses, para que dejara de llorar
Un pequeño de apenas tres meses, fue asesinado por su padre, para que dejara de llorar
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Tav the Covenant Letter
written by Will Schumaker
The 22nd and final Hebrew letter is the tav. It has a gematria of 400. I believe Bible numbers clearly show that the meaning of each of the Hebrew letters are tied to the numbers that pertain to each of the letters.
So the letter Tav should then be tied to the number 22, its position, and 400, its gematria, in the bible.
The letter tav means mark, seal or signature. The ancient pictograph for the letter tav was a cross.
It is called the “covenant letter”. From the Bible Wheel site: “Everyone marked with the Tav Cross was protected when God poured out his wrath on the apostates corrupting His Temple. Similar imagery appears in Revelation 7 when God sealed 144,000 of His servants in their foreheads against the coming judgment. All of this conspires to reveal Tav as the Covenant Letter which is the meaning recognized by both Christians and Jews since antiquity”
So let’s see if the bible numbers reveal a link between the meaning of Tav, the covenant letter, and the numbers 22 and 400.
“What inspired you to start this project?” (Artist Statement)
As I surveyed my existing portfolio I was struck with how absent people of color were from my work. This had never been the intent, and this absence of diversity left me uneasy. Had I too fell victim to the media portrayals of beauty? Had the archetypes being generated in mass media co opted me into this sickness?
I had produced several very successful fashion shows in Seattle. I had done model scouting and held casting calls for one of the world's largest fashion weeks, Vancouver Fashion Week, yet here was my portfolio severely lacking diversity in the color and hue of whom i had chosen to capture and immortalize as beautiful.
Many questions arose like a torrential flood. Did i have an internalized bias against black skin? Brown skin? Was my bias against different hair textures? Nose sizes? Was I even conscious of decisions I had made by not explicitly pursuing models of color?
As a man of color, as someone obsessed with color, vibrance, hue, my unease propelled me to action. I would begin a project, wherein i would focus exclusively on photographing portraits of men and women of color. I would conduct interviews with my subjects, and explore issues of racial profiling, police brutality, cat calls, beauty codes, hair memes, color memes, intercultural dating, discrimination in employment, and black masculinity.
Staying true to my own identity as a man of color, a multicultural man of color, I chose t an approach in which all non-white cultures, indigenous and immigrant, black and brown, would be sought out. I was expressly interested in finding Native, Asian American and black heterosexual men’s voices. I did not limit my subjects to specifically those with US citizenship. I was interested in the experience, the existential milieu in which “others” find themselves in a sea of “whiteness” in America. What were the unique experiences that defined an Ethiopian woman’s relationship to racism in this country? What were those of black men with strong identity to their native heritage? Was the media myth of Asian Americans as the “silent minority” part of a larger discussion on oppression? How do different cultures respond to media depictions of them? How do they fight back against racism and caricatures? Are these images internalized? Was there a disconnect between the face in front of the mirror and the face that society saw? What was it for my subjects to look in the mirror and see a beautiful man or woman of color, a face full of confidence and pride, and then walk out the door to be met by a world that would see that same face as aggressive and manly ( in the case of my female subjects ) or frightening and a violent criminal ( in the case of my male subjects )? What was it to brush your hair every morning and feel blessed to have such beautiful hair, but then walk out the door to be harrassed by having strangers gawk at you or stare at your hair or ask to pet it like a dog? Were repeated encounters with images that were negative, subliminaly or overtly racist internalised in such a way that my subjects were not aware of how beautiful they were? Had these images impacted my subject in such a way that they had shied away from being photographed or pursuing careers in modeling or acting or other opportunities where physical beauty were an unspoken job requirement?
I wrote up a series of interview prompts and did in person interviews with willing subjects. I wished to draw out from my subjects their life experiences and their own reflections on what it is to be a person of color in the United States. As my project progressed, it became evident that there was much more to be drawn out from what I had gathered. My portraiture had turned me onto a desire to take steps towards the dissection of the historical of position of the photograph and image in African American history in particular.
young, bold, beautiful who will you become? as i gaze at you and capture you as you are in this moment for all time im filled with visions of you as you age and life carves its lines into your faces and your hair greys and even in those waning years you stand tall and strong like a beautiful medrona, your skin smooth glowing with the fire of your blackfoot blood
love withers and dies, lovers blowing further and further from each other like fall leaves running from the cold whispers of winter
lust smolders, burns, an obsession forever etched in the photographer’s gaze.
lay here and possess this room like a spirit that will forever haunt this space with the scent of your skin
know that my lens captures ghosts, see the beauty of their movement evident
long after you have forgotten you were a goddess, your followers dwindled to but a loving few and the grey hairs and old bones have faded your reflection
know that like a holy temple filled with icons so too have i filled boxes with photographs so mere mortals in future times will know that such a being walked this earth