stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom
- to the reader
Seeking more melanated happy places in 2016. #findyourmelanatedhappyplace.
Photo taken by Jennifer M. Williams at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago at the Dandy Lion Exhibition curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis.
Blitz the Ambassador - The Collection
track released December 29, 2015
The Collection is Blitz the Ambassador's entire catalog from 2004 - 2015. It includes Soul Rebel, Double Consciousness, Stereotype, StereoLive, Native Sun, The Warm Up EP, Afropolitan Dreams.
“...the Black body is condemned before it even acts; it has always already committed a crime...the Black body is not born free, but is imprisoned by ideological frames of reference that reduce the Black body ontologically to the level of a criminal. Even in the womb, the Black body is already against the law.
+George Yancy”
sibyl #4 progress
EQUALS are James Low and Ade Omotayo from east London
Director: Louis Ellison
Production company: Maverick Film
Director of Photography: Doug Walsh
Producer: Olivier Derriet-Fisher
Editor: Pete Thompson at Maverick Film
Colourist: Mark Meadows at Smoke and Mirrors
Makeup: Keely Reichardt
Makeup assistant: Elizabeth Gandolfo
Camera assistant/focus puller: Liam White
sibyl #4. end of 2015 goals. #tanialaure
Sibyl #3 is en route to Jan Brandt Gallery in Bloomington, IL for a group show - (Re)Vision: What is Post-Black Art.
(Re)Vision is an art exhibition about the limitless possibilities of asserting Black identity in non-representational and figurative work.
Artists: Michael Adams, Luke Ahern, Tania L. Balan-Gaubert, Nakeya Brown, Alexa Cary, Percy Echols II, Lamiah Gholar, Allison Gragg, Venise Keys, Ðarian Łongmire, Marcus Latrell Martin, Marvin Touré.
Curated by Venise Keys