Jump Off
2023
11” x 14” panel framed
Acrylic + Markers
Series: The Dream
Inspired from James Baldwin quote: “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free, he has set himself free for higher dreams, for greater privileges”
Don’t go. Stay with us. It’s easy here. You’re “safe”. You don’t know what you’ll become if you go over there. You certainly won’t make America great again if you leave our “safety”. Breaking through years of conditioning is hard and uncomfortable. Jump and see how far down the rabbit hole goes.