Tag: art
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Write on Time: Part 2
Kept inside, the pain is poison, but when artists, especially Black artists, let it out, its genius. But genius is not a typical state with normal expectations; it’s acceptable for a genius to act (or actually be) crazy. In fact we often want that in our Black artists. We expect them to be crazy, love…
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in the details: afro bloomin’
Someone somewhere once wrote, “she never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”* UK photographer Dazhane Leah definitely accomplished that with her project: Afro Bloomin’. “I see beauty in natural hair and I see beauty in flowers – together I think they go…