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Ta Quang Hung and Nguyen Huy Quang for Mas Man

~ Vietnam (5 and 7) ~

CONJURE, 2020 by Ajmal "Mas Man" Millar

acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas

60in. x 84in.

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Peter Minshall, Mancrab’s Triumph over Washerwoman, Trinidad Carnival, 1983. Taken from “Mas-Man: The Complete Work”, 2015. Directed by Dalton Narine.

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Whereas in your culture, it is the custom to pay your money to go into an enclosed space to observe other people perform, in my culture, on the island from which I come, it is the custom to pay your money to perform.

Peter Minshall, Mas Man: The Complete Work, 2015.

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I’m so tired of that old tidbit about us all knowing Picasso had stolen from Africa. This poor sorrowful horse, long deceased, still continues to be beaten to death many times over for false comfort of needful, insecure, ill-informed, gullible black people. We all know that all art is born of rich discourse, intelligent dialogue, informed observation and admiration, exchange and adaptation of each other’s statements and utterances, whatever their origin, structure, color, shade or form. Louis Armstrong did not steal the trumpet from anybody. He simply picked it up and played it. Brilliantly. God had spoken and that was that. They say I am white. But I am not a European. I am not an African. I am not an Indian. I am not Chinese or Syrian. I am not Amerindian. I am not American, North or South. I am none of these. Yet I am allof these. I am a Caribbean. The newly emergent island people, rich in ancestral heritage, are in the process of finding their place in the world. Nobody knows anything for sure. This might have been thoughtfully and patiently put to our advantage. But Ignorance and Enlightenment, being differentiated too zealously, become Nignorance and Enwhitenment. In trying too hard to be ‘developed’ and ‘civilized’ we end up as an obscene caricature of ourselves. A culture of greed and power has manifested out of easy oil wealth, and all too quickly we have forgotten that Pretty is to Beauty as Platitude is to Truth.

Peter Minshall (from Dalton Narine's documentary "Mas Man")