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The Blood of Trayvon
Medium: Acrylic on
Illustration Board
Size: 40 x
24
Thousands of young
African American men are dying throughout the United
States in very unjust ways.
This work represents
the killing of Trayvon Martin. It is a crime scene that
reflects violence of innocent young African American
men. My reason for doing this painting is to arouse the
consciousness of people throughout this Nation and the
World. It is also a fitting tribute to parents who have
lost their sons and daughters to unjust violence.
My hope is that the showing of this
painting provides awareness so everyone can be involved
in protecting our children.
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Generations
Medium: Poplar Wood
Size: 42½
x 7 x 9
In the 1950's, segregation and oppression
took its toll on the Black family, generations cried, died,
smiled with pain, joy with displaced love, while raped young
mothers with smothered futures held their families together to
produce generations, and the future is now.
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Torn Roots
Medium: Dark Maple
Size: 47 x 9½
The chained and dying hands that worked the red dirt
soil of yesterdays survival and tomorrow's river will rise. |
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My walking canes are made from woods of the
apple, pine, maple and mahogany trees. I see them as a
transformation from their roots in the earth to supporting the
infirm and the disabled among us. I use colors on my canes
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Freddy's Place
Medium: Acrylic by Illustration Board
Size: 42 ½
x 22½
During the 1960's in Louisiana segregation was the rule.
However, black night clubs thrived. Freddie's Place provided
a Black social agenda.
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The
Moment
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48 h x 48 w
The moment represents a period during the first half of the
turn of the century in Central Louisiana when Black women,
economically deprived, choose prostitution over cotton
fields and scrubbing floors. |
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My Son Will Rise
Medium: Acrylic on Illustration Board
Size: 42½ x 32
My father died, my godfather (Le
Parrain) christened me in church when I was two weeks
old. This painting represents his love for me. He always
spoke these words; my son, you will rise above the cotton
fields, low pay, hot son and wasted struggle of the worn
out whip. |
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Generations of Women
Medium: Acrylic on Media Board
Size: 32½
x 29¾
Mothers and daughters embrace after Sunday School, love is
everywhere. |
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Mother and Baby Cotton in Tow
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48 x 24½
The Black mother's love was the thing I saw through pain
and sorrow, she wouldn't let go. |
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Godfather's Guiding Hand
Medium: Acrylic on Media Board
Size: 29½
x 39¾
A father's guiding hands laid the
foundation in my life that sustained me through success and
failure, trial and error, faith and doubt, trust and
redemption, than GOD stepped in.
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The Doors of No Return
Size: 42¾ x 32¾
Medium: Acrylic on Multi-medium Board
The doors of no return represents
emptiness that still fill the hearts and minds of African
people through stories handed down from generation to
generation about the stolen people. Using my visual and
literary talent, I want to show, out of pain and slavery,
we have survived. Most of all, we are here just across
the Atlantic ocean.
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Do No More Violence to Women
Medium: Walnut Wood
Size: 20 x 21½ x 7
Do no more violence is dedicated to every living, dying,
suffering born and unborn women who has or may have a son
that they wish could be taken back, only to return free from
freedoms pretensions.
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Homeless Man
Medium: Alaskan Dark Cedar
Size: 23½
x 8½
x 6½
Laying on the street, bare and worn feet, the rich called
him a street leach, while his mother wept. Memories of a
wine-o, he died on the street.
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Bloody
Caddo
Medium: Acrylic on Multi-media
Board
Size: 42 3/4 by 31
After the Civil War, in
Shreveport, Louisiana, returning Civil War Veterans took
their anger out against African American people. Dozens
were hung from trees. This painting depicts that period
in the tragic loss of life in Caddo Parish.
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Mother Holding Baby
Size: 40½
x 33¾
Medium: Acrylic on Illustration Board
Mother holding baby, this painting is
the essence of the cradle of Black civilization evolving
from a mother's womb and into her arms, giving her Black
child it's life support. |
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Natchitoches
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 X 48
A tribute to the oldest City in the Louisiana Purchase. A
fantasy of color that hides its slave roots, and
plantations that cannot be recognized.
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New Orleans
Before the Storm
Medium: Acrylic on Media Board
Size: 34 X 32½
The big easy is home to some of the most poverty stricken
African-Americans in these United States. Racism and
white supremacy is at the heart of their suffering. This
painting reflects on that cover up.
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Devil in a Red Dress
Medium: Acrylic on Illustration Board
Size: 23¼
X 16¼
With three kids in college, she's retiring from her street
hustle, determined to get them educated.
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