Monae Lisa
8:23 AM
The Monae Lisa: What started as a way to calm me down after these gut-wrenching, emotional, hopeful and crushing days is becoming a series about replacing our history—in these paintings, through appropriation, as our culture has been appropriated. Though more in the vein of alternate reality a la N.K. Jemisin, the title is inspired by Janelle Moane and her radically imaginative Afrofuturism (and I love her for big-upping our non-binary siblings). Also, a big thanks to BUST Magazine for featuring women’s art on your back page and to Essence Magazine for your winter issue with Regina King about black women in the art world - both are inspiring and needed (especially when all you wanna do is huddle in a ball and cry)!
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