Monday, 12 February 2018

12th February 2018: Morning Light / Nimco Ali / Conflict Of President Portraits.

Today, to be thankful / to be grateful,

for a gentle morning orange light, and the indication of brighter, longer days. It’s not just feeling the present beauty, but the sense that feeling includes an incorporation of a future truth, a future optimism.

for Nimco Ali

for the conflict artists have accepting commissions to paint those in positions of power. There are many traps towards sentimentality and romanticising as terrible system through a humanising lens. However, with these Obama inclusions, as an act of confirmation that people of colour can achieve such a privileged position in the context of a country famous for its abuse and oppression of people of colour is a hopeful expression within that context.

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