Flintstones
Limited edition abstract digital print on canvas. This is the only canvas printed of this digital abstract art. Flintstones was created while I processed the killing of Tyre Nichols. Canvas is ready to hang and is 24x24 inches.
the story behind the art
This art piece is part of digital abstract series I painted where I gave myself permission to play and not worry about if someone else would like it or if the piece would sell. I was still numb to the killing of Tyre Nichols, but the emotions started to come through some of the pieces in this series. I subconsciously expressed it through references to other slain Black folks, civil rights leaders, and the general perpetual loss of Black lives. There are a few odes to Basquiat, who died of an overdose. Drugs have been pumped into Black spaces causing epidemics for decades—another chain around our necks. And some of the pieces are purely playful and fun—a harkening to a time of innocence. There’s a tension between wishing for simpler times when I didn’t know or understand what I do now and the reality of living in a Black body. May we continue to find strength and joy despite the struggle that would break us.
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“LOVELY art. Each piece has meaning and motivation.”
Hannah N.