This 1 x 2 foot piece features a young lady at a protest listening to accounts from older black Americans detailing the struggles they faced growing up, and highlighting how many struggles still exist today. Tears welled up in her eyes as she listened and looked out upon a sea of people who all came together for unity, and hope.
The only true way to understand someone is to walk in their shoes. That isn’t possible with everything, like ethnicity and nationality for example. That’s where this piece comes in. When you look at it, I hope you see the young lady and her wonderful curls reaching to the sky. If you look long enough, I hope you see yourself.
Black Americans account for roughly 15% of the United States, and just .6 of the entire globe. That said, the scope and scale of our existence is rather small, the opposite of our impact on this world. Although we can share and talk culture til the sun goes down, no one can truly understand your experience but you. What we can do is look past our labels and colors, and hone in on the fact that we are all one - regardless of where we were born.
This 1 x 2 foot piece features a young lady at a protest listening to accounts from older black Americans detailing the struggles they faced growing up, and highlighting how many struggles still exist today. Tears welled up in her eyes as she listened and looked out upon a sea of people who all came together for unity, and hope.
The only true way to understand someone is to walk in their shoes. That isn’t possible with everything, like ethnicity and nationality for example. That’s where this piece comes in. When you look at it, I hope you see the young lady and her wonderful curls reaching to the sky. If you look long enough, I hope you see yourself.
Black Americans account for roughly 15% of the United States, and just .6 of the entire globe. That said, the scope and scale of our existence is rather small, the opposite of our impact on this world. Although we can share and talk culture til the sun goes down, no one can truly understand your experience but you. What we can do is look past our labels and colors, and hone in on the fact that we are all one - regardless of where we were born.
