Brejenn's Prayer

"Brejenn's Prayer" Mixed Media on canvas, 36 x 36" 2022. $5,000 This is my manifestation for the life a black woman deserves. This is my tribute to the life black women trailblaze and the frontiers black women created. Heavy Impasto Paint gives this piece incredible texture in spiral patterns for the Ankara Nsubra print. Nsubra means water well in Twi. I want wealth to flow for me like water. The custom mixed paint textures are different across the canvas. Some background details have a metallic finish while the borders have a very dry almost concrete feel that I love. Hundred Dollar Bills were scanned into Photoshop to manipulate our late great Harriet Tubman onto them. (The government tried to get me because they thought I was scamming money) They have a smooth, glassy texture that contrasts the roughness of the rest of the painting. She was rough enough during her lifetime. I wanted her to be smooth and feminine in this piece.  The Nails are created with hand-molded clay and adhered