Lincoln's New York

This #Shoe #sculpture is #Inspired by the extraordinarily #beautiful and #ancient flower, #ProteaRepens. It is found naturally in what is now called #SouthAfrica and #Kenya another members of the #Protea family can be found in what are now called, Guinea, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola, and Uganda.

Throughout history Protea has been used in numerous ways including for firewood, medicine, as a sugar syrup, a cut flower, etc.

This #Shoe #sculpture is #Inspired by the extraordinarily #beautiful and #ancient flower, #ProteaRepens. It is found naturally in what is now called #SouthAfrica and #Kenya another members of the #Protea family can be found in what are now called, Guinea, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola, and Uganda.

Throughout history Protea has been used in numerous ways including for firewood, medicine, as a sugar syrup, a cut flower, etc.

This #Shoe #sculpture is #Inspired by the extraordinarily #beautiful and #ancient flower, #ProteaRepens. It is found naturally in what is now called #SouthAfrica and #Kenya another members of the #Protea family can be found in what are now called, Guinea, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola, and Uganda.

Throughout history Protea has been used in numerous ways including for firewood, medicine, as a sugar syrup, a cut flower, etc.

This #Shoe #sculpture is #Inspired by the extraordinarily #beautiful and #ancient flower, #ProteaRepens. It is found naturally in what is now called #SouthAfrica and #Kenya another members of the #Protea family can be found in what are now called, Guinea, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola, and Uganda.

Throughout history Protea has been used in numerous ways including for firewood, medicine, as a sugar syrup, a cut flower, etc.

Inspired by beautiful insects that can ONLY be found in #DRCongo, #Ethiopia, #Kenya, #Malawi, #Zambia, #Mozambiqu e, #Namibia, #SouthAfrica, #Eswatini, # Tanzania, #Zimbabwe and a few other African nations.

Inspired by beautiful insects that can ONLY be found in #DRCongo, #Ethiopia, #Kenya, #Malawi, #Zambia, #Mozambiqu e, #Namibia, #SouthAfrica, #Eswatini, # Tanzania, #Zimbabwe and a few other African nations.

AFRO GODS!, FW 2019 - SS 2020.

This style was inspired by Ikaggen. Ikaggen or Cagn as he is also called, is the Creator God of the San people of what is now South Africa. The San are among the oldest people on the Mother Continent and this very important detail was always on my mind throughout the research. Many conflicting stories about this particular god exist and that made the research richer and more fun than expected. To the San Ikaggen is the creator of ALL things, for them he is within everything and everywhere.

Ikaggen is viewed as destructive but also creative... a trickster as well as a benevolent god. He is a shapeshifter and takes the form of several animals including the caterpillar, mantis, lion, bull, snake, etc. Many of the stories about Ikaggen feature wild animals as the main characters. One of the sons of Ikaggen is himself an eland antelope and the adopted daughter of Ikaggen and his wife,ǀHúnntuǃattǃatte̥n, is a porcupine.

The San god is very well documented and I've only touched on the surface because the stories are all pretty detailed and I don't want to lose any of it in translation but if you are interested go find out... You will not be disappointed... especially if you are a nature lover!

Got a new haircut and I detest it 🤬🤬... so this is one of my new heads until my curls grow back in 🤩! 👑🎓👒🎩🧢

Blackness UNERASED!, SS'19

The creations of Winifred Mason can be dated back to the early 1940's, she is said to be the first working jewelry designer of African descent in the US although I am sure many other jewelers of African descent were creating well before her. Mason furnished 5th. Avenue boutiques and famous department stores with her unique one of a kind jewelry that were primarily made in copper. Mega famous entertainers of the period donned her designs and she was featured in many of the prominent periodicals of her time. I personally love the fact that her distinctive creations were one-off. Check her out to see examples of her outstanding work.

Blackness UNERASED!, SS'19​ “More often than not #racial #solidarity forged a #bond between black-skinned folks even if they did not share the same caste or class standing. They were #bonded by the #knowledge that at any moment, whether #free or #enslaved, they could share the same fate. ​ “That fate? #Invisibility.” From, Where We Stand: Class Matters - 2000 - By the unreplaceable phenomenon that is Miss Bell Hooks.

I most certainly am NOT the first and I am sure I will not be the last. This #erasure is everywhere and it is up to us to erase it; EREASEERASURE!

We are responsibe for doing this #work on our own for our own!

Blackness UNERASED!, SS'19 "Maybe I won’t see it in my lifetime, but there will come a day when it will be quite common to see a black face on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue." - Naomi Ruth Sims

After all these centuries and it is still controversial to be Black in many spaces! That beautiful skin really gets under their skin.

Blackness UNERASED!, SS'19

Here is a quote from La'Tanya Griffin, “We have become more conservative and tend to bypass loud colors and unbecoming styles we once favoured. On the whole we have solvedthe problem of selecting colors to complement our particular complexions and are toning down the flamboyance of which we are often accused.”

I wonder Why would she say something like that? I guess she/we were/are #EXTRA. hahahhaha... I mean, being accused of flamboyance? This quote reminds me of my internships and always being accused of TRYING to do "THAT" kind of "stuff" when in reality, I was doing what comes naturally to ME, creative wise. I imagine it has always been this way. AND, if that is the case the lesson here is, ALWAYS do YOU since the tasteless and incapable will habitually ridicule you for navigating your creative lane. 😒🤬😁.

Blackness UNERASED!, FW '18 - SS'19, THE END.