Way of the Warrior provides the largest window into my created world Forget Me Nots Land. Flatly painted symbols and icons are juxtaposed together with a loosely painted and impressionistic styled landscape where characters interact in the foreground. My artistic interest investigate contemporary society through the lens of Afrofuturism and storytelling. I use symbols and created characters to build narratives that analyze my personal cultural experience.
In this painting I tried to capture the idea of bottled creative energy pushing forward in a world that is defined by canons of the past. My figurative characters break free from the landscape by being a visual clash in style. They wer...