Assumptions
2023 || Acrylic + Marker || 11” x 14” panel framed
Series: The Dream
Inspired from James Baldwin quote: “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free, he has set himself free for higher dreams, for greater privileges”
I have my assumptions of humanity engrained from an early age. Certainly not set in stone, but pervasive in my day-to-day. Questioning my biases, asking myself ‘why did I think or say that?’, and being uncomfortable with questioning my assumptions are all the beginning to a new dream.
2023 || Acrylic + Marker || 11” x 14” panel framed
Series: The Dream
Inspired from James Baldwin quote: “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free, he has set himself free for higher dreams, for greater privileges”
I have my assumptions of humanity engrained from an early age. Certainly not set in stone, but pervasive in my day-to-day. Questioning my biases, asking myself ‘why did I think or say that?’, and being uncomfortable with questioning my assumptions are all the beginning to a new dream.
2023 || Acrylic + Marker || 11” x 14” panel framed
Series: The Dream
Inspired from James Baldwin quote: “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free, he has set himself free for higher dreams, for greater privileges”
I have my assumptions of humanity engrained from an early age. Certainly not set in stone, but pervasive in my day-to-day. Questioning my biases, asking myself ‘why did I think or say that?’, and being uncomfortable with questioning my assumptions are all the beginning to a new dream.
