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Racing with myself to Adapt with intensifying substances Lost amongst the hoarder competitive youth Observed my childhood twice removed From the towers of a new world consumerism Had me obese and overdosed; lost myself and I was deaf But in the man in no mans land, God was in me Introspective perspective with months of reflective thought developed cans and cans of paint The nomadic stoner philosopher, attempts to capture his life, in these short abstract , paintings , unfinished .

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Thays

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Nyajuok Wiew, Model

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of course we can keep on pretending indeed, it’s the easier way to blanket yourself in the entire night sky yet acting as though you’ve befriended the day trees do not grow without bending they cannot meet the wind without sway know that this doesn’t negate their strength and they don’t dream of running away so night child, we’ve got to get mending we’ve got trees to climb, we’re both here to play but so long as you’re rigid while windswept, boughs breaking beneath our hearts heavy wilt weigh

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Photo essay on my experience with Bipolar 2 disorder. 

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The balancing act #bipolar #lamictal #moodstabilizer #mentalhealth #vsco #vscocam #collage #art #fineart #habesha #sharks #pills (at Bangkok, Thailand)

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Tsoku Maela hopes that, by showing these photos, he can help address the stigma attached to mental illness within black communities.

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Mental Illness through photos by CSPhotography.

In Order:

1.) Anxiety

2.) Depression

3.) Insomnia

4.) Anorexia

5.) Paranoia 

6.) Schizophrenia 

7.) OCD

8.) Panic

9.) Bipolar 

10.) Addiction

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this work is called “the impact of a book.” – West Plains Public Library

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CROWN by Gerrel Saunders

Natural hair artwork is everywhere, but very rarely are depictions of locs present in these creations. Trinidad-based artist Gerral Saunders of GakDesigns remedies this with his empowering new series CROWN. 

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humble / kendrick lamar / dir. dave meyers & the little homies;

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Welp 💀

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George William Kyeyune (Ugandan, born 1962), Nude, 2003

George Kyeyune is a painter and sculptor whose works display perceptive observations of everyday moments and people.

Kyeyune graduated from the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Arts, Kampala in 1985. He then travelled to India where he achieved an MFA, specializing in Sculpture, from the Maharaja Sayajiraho University of Baroda. The 3 years that he spent in Gujurat were transformative to Kyeyune’s artistic practice; through looking at the Indian religions and art forms which survived colonialism he was encouraged to question his own cultural inheritance.

On returning to Kampala, Kyeyune re-joined the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Arts, teaching Sculpture. He continued his own practice, sculpting and exhibiting widely in Kampala, and in 1996 he returned also to painting. In 1999 he received a scholarship for a doctoral study in History of African Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

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Girma Berta (Ethiopian, born 1990), Moving Shadows V, 2015 and Moving Shadows VIII, 2016,Both edition 5/7 photographic print on textured archival paper

Girma Berta is an award-winning young artist based in Addis Ababa, whose work fuses street photography with fine art.

In Berta’s Moving Shadows series, solitary figures are juxtaposed against vibrant backgrounds, creating unique artworks which exemplify the contrasting colours and personalities on the street of his home town. Berta’s use of the digital medium to produce and present his artworks is a commentary on the digital revolution which is underway across Africa. Berta describes the motivation behind his work as a wish to capture “the beautiful, the ugly and all that is in between”. His images delve deep into the inhabitants of the city, offering his remarkable interpretation.

Berta’s Moving Shadows series received the 2016 Getty Images Instagram Award and his work has been featured in The Guardian, Okay Africa, Design Indaba and Art Africa and exhibited at Bamako Photo Fest, 2015, PhotoVille NY, 2015 and 2016, Look Festival NY, 2016, 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, London, 2016 and AKAA Art Fair Paris, 2016.

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Eria ‘Sane’ Nsubuga (Ugandan, born 1979), The Stare Down, 2015, mixed media on canvas

Eria Solomon Nsubuga also known as ‘Sane’ is a painter, sculptor and illustrator. His recent works use vivid colours and strong brushwork to address politics of black aesthetics and the effect of globalism on notions of beauty in the African context.

This painting is from the exhibition Black Face, White Masks, in which Sane explored Frantz Fanon’s ideas of colonization of culture and identity, in the contemporary context of global cultural hybridity.

Sane graduated from Makerere University in 2008 with an MA in Sculpture from the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Kampala. A practising artist since 1999, he has participated in numerous auctions, fairs, workshops and exhibitions, including the Johannesburg Workshop for Theory and Criticism, University of Witwatersrand, the Cape Town Art Fair 2015, the Kampala Contemporary Art Biennale 2014, Kampala Contemporary Art Festival KLA ART 012, the Florence Biennale 2011, Fabrica: Les Yeux Ouverts, Centre Pompidou, Milan Triennale, and Tajan, France, 2007.

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#Bangkok #reflection #vsco #vscocam (at Stamford International University)