could this be love?, Mural, 9'X6', Acrylic on Canvas, Yale SoA, (2021)
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on the shoulders of giants Mural, Size: 6'X4', Acrylic on Canvas, UMiami School of Law, (2021)
"ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS" was commissioned for the University of Miami's School of Law, for the rededication of the Jaret Davis Workspace. The overall encompassing image of the woman with her hair is Angela Davis.
Top row: Eula Johnson (NAACP chair who worked to desegregate Ft. Lauderdale), le Neg Mawon in Haiti, Malcolm X and Muhammad, Marvin Dunn (former vet and treasured Miami Black Historian), D.A. Dorsey (Miami millionaire), Arthur McDuffie (victim of police brutality, instigation of massive race riots in Miami), 1980 Miami (Liberty City) riots.
Second row: Thurgood Marshall, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Tuskegee Airmen and a female nurse, Felipe Luciano (Afrolatin Puerto Rican poet and prison rights activist, as well as a loud and prominent advocate for Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ community.
Third Row: Miami Dade County Police Building named after the First Black Director of Police, Black Panther Members, Lady Justice, Breonna Taylor, Marsha P. Johnson, Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin.
Bottom left hand corner of her afro: a veteran marine of the Vietnam war, two women back to back representing the hair regulations in the military of black women's hair.
To the right side of her hair: the Zong ship from the notorious Zong ship Massacre Trial and finally the race wall in Liberty City.
Top row: Eula Johnson (NAACP chair who worked to desegregate Ft. Lauderdale), le Neg Mawon in Haiti, Malcolm X and Muhammad, Marvin Dunn (former vet and treasured Miami Black Historian), D.A. Dorsey (Miami millionaire), Arthur McDuffie (victim of police brutality, instigation of massive race riots in Miami), 1980 Miami (Liberty City) riots.
Second row: Thurgood Marshall, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Tuskegee Airmen and a female nurse, Felipe Luciano (Afrolatin Puerto Rican poet and prison rights activist, as well as a loud and prominent advocate for Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ community.
Third Row: Miami Dade County Police Building named after the First Black Director of Police, Black Panther Members, Lady Justice, Breonna Taylor, Marsha P. Johnson, Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin.
Bottom left hand corner of her afro: a veteran marine of the Vietnam war, two women back to back representing the hair regulations in the military of black women's hair.
To the right side of her hair: the Zong ship from the notorious Zong ship Massacre Trial and finally the race wall in Liberty City.
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