a portrait series of the personalities I encountered while spending a month in Cape Town on the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship in 2016. I wanted to capture the face of Cape Town which I found interesting within the context of the born free generation, as well as consider the formal and political tension of blackness as a color and political burden.
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untitled
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
22 inches diameter
2016
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tulani
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled cape town brother 1
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled cape town brother 2
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled cape town brother 3
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled cape town brother 4
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled atlanta brother 1
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled cape town brother 5
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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untitled cape town brother 6
(Acrylic and Flashe on paper)
7x7 inches
2016
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cape town portraits (installation)
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s.a. boy
(Acrylic and charcoal on canvas)
10 inches diameter
2016