@abstractexit ✊🏾 Independence Day wasn’t freedom for all peoples in Amerikkka. The struggle life depicted in the colors black and blue means more to me than the red and white stripes. Black bodies against the beautifully sculpted blue skies. Blue as in the tunes that tell our stories through the Blues that simultaneously brings us joy as we release the pain that in other case can never be tolerated. X’s that mark the places we shun light amidst the dark black places - and atrocities to be remembered and give birth to lyrics such as “Black and Blue” - the trumpet squeals against the raspy vocals of Louis Armstrong’s paving way to the new Blues as artists lyricize “Hip Hop, you da love of my life...” with beats throbbin’ into the new millennium as we’ve all left mother Africa in our past, with thoughts of Fela Kuti, water, for sure, no get enemy. Yet we still strugglin’ to overcome adversity against this black skin. Culturally desired yet still despised in our melanin. Sure, we still got the Blues - the Afro blues, the Africa blues, the color blue that reflects the heavens on our beautiful dark black surfaces. . . . Art piece details: “Tearz (Wu-Tang)” 2019, spray paint, mylar, iridescent film, vinyl, 36”x48” #Tarikushiferaw inspired by #davidhammons “African American Flag” #SupportBlackArt #Amerikkka #WeAintDoneYet https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPT834hFNQ/?igshid=oii8e3qm4g60
