Happy New Year Osengwa Family! Thank you for all the love and support in 2020. We made it into 2021! Let’s make every moment count, make glorious memories and celebrate every win!
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Title: “Chasing the bloom”.
By: MrPhisha Akinlabi Akinbulumo
Size: 24 X 36 Inches Gallery Etching Print
Year: 2020
Subject: Mayowa Olumekun
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All Artworks created by @Mrphisha for @phishastudios .
The Famous St John’s Gospel Singers of Indianola, Mississippi, front row, Ben Carwin and John Matthew, standing, Birkett Davis, O.L. Matthew and Riley B King , probably 1945
The first thing that attracted me to her, because Uncle Clifford prefers the pronoun she, was the fact that Uncle Clifford was all things. It came from this idea what if a person could accept and access all of their femininity and all of their masculinity, if a person could just BE. And it just grew from there, and it took its own arc and shot off into the stratosphere. That’s one of the things to me that was the most attractive, but also daring. Honestly, I saw members of my community, and I saw members of the LGBT community, people that would appropriate femininity in a way that was not honest. It wasn’t truthful, it wasn’t genuine, it was more so for about a joke. And I didn’t want that. I’ll be thinking there has to be something behind that. Like what makes that person cry or who do they love? Or what are their parents like?
