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“EXPERI…Mental”
“EXPERI…Mental” - 2024.01.12.03.23.083
CHANGING because it’s what’s being demanded! Don’t just change clothes, brands, colors and your idea of “cool”. Change the whole gawd damn thing! That’s not what they’re counting on!
This needs to be a place of disruption. There needs to be a space for disruption. In being a free Black Man, everyday seems to feel like an experiment—a GRAND experiment. The experiment is to survive and maintain ones sanity within maintaining the identity because we were never meant to survive. Not by the measurements of those they call the founders of the American country by White European settlers.
Incorporating the most previous Digital Art Piece; “LOOKING THRU FROM THE OTHER SIDE”, this piece includes Design text elements to spell out the actual message. The experiment is to survive and maintain ones sanity while knowing and understanding that there are many things to question as to improve upon who we are and what we do. Everything that we are has been hijacked. Commercialism for capitalism has provided a means for People of Color—specifically Black Men of Color—to be met and confronted with many types of societal dysfunction. How Black Men are perceived and why stand at the forefront as products and responses to slavery and post-slavery issues exacerbated by technology and the associated social media platforms. As a part of “The Dichotomy of…”, this piece embodies thoughts and ideas we have about the Black, Brown and African American issues. There is a need for a new identity and understanding of “Black”. In being Black, we are sophisticatedly complex requiring caution with care.
Like so many things around us, the term “Black” and Black People are deserving of a revision and revitalization. Where it is quite obvious that Black and Brown communities see tremendous forms of dysfunction, this is where a clear and blatant revision needs to be addressed. In the art. In the music. In the conversations and banter. We see where the values, principles and priorities originate, reside and become action.
We need to change how we see things. We need to change how we are informed of this world. We need to change how we see and are informed of ourselves and our relative positions to everything else. We need broader talk and social groups and areas of concern. We need greater ways of expressing ourselves while still maintaining a reserve and discipline that acts with a priority of looking out for each other rather than to sacrifice. Change needs to happen. Change needs to happen because—we believe—People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture are heralds and harbingers of Change. We are Change…itself.
