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7x5" Mixed Media on Paper
This is a mixed media collage painting combining hand-painted illustration with cut-and-pasted text fragments from magazines and newspapers — reminiscent of techniques used by artists like Romare Bearden or Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The Figure
A stylishly dressed Black man stands in profile, rendered in expressive painterly strokes. He wears:
A red beanie
A gray jacket adorned with a red starburst emblem and a small cross
Patchwork pants covered in collaged imagery — a bird, colorful fabric scraps, architectural fragments
Yellow/gold sneakers
He holds smoke in his hands and though directing the theme
The Swirling Text
Surrounding him in a spiral of smoke-like gray clouds are cut newspaper/magazine words and phrases:
"wealth," "social revolution," "invasion," "free laughter," "to the extreme," "the modern fiction," "spirit," "LIFE," "arts," "Blind-your-eyes," "anger and cynicism," "voodoo," "REDUCES"
Interpretation
The swirling text creates a vortex of societal forces — capitalism, media, culture, spirituality — encircling the figure. The patchwork clothing suggests a man assembled from the fragments of society, while his composed posture implies quiet defiance.
The warm burnt orange background gives it an aged, timeless quality.
7x5" Mixed Media on Paper
This is a mixed media collage painting combining hand-painted illustration with cut-and-pasted text fragments from magazines and newspapers — reminiscent of techniques used by artists like Romare Bearden or Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The Figure
A stylishly dressed Black man stands in profile, rendered in expressive painterly strokes. He wears:
A red beanie
A gray jacket adorned with a red starburst emblem and a small cross
Patchwork pants covered in collaged imagery — a bird, colorful fabric scraps, architectural fragments
Yellow/gold sneakers
He holds smoke in his hands and though directing the theme
The Swirling Text
Surrounding him in a spiral of smoke-like gray clouds are cut newspaper/magazine words and phrases:
"wealth," "social revolution," "invasion," "free laughter," "to the extreme," "the modern fiction," "spirit," "LIFE," "arts," "Blind-your-eyes," "anger and cynicism," "voodoo," "REDUCES"
Interpretation
The swirling text creates a vortex of societal forces — capitalism, media, culture, spirituality — encircling the figure. The patchwork clothing suggests a man assembled from the fragments of society, while his composed posture implies quiet defiance.
The warm burnt orange background gives it an aged, timeless quality.