#breaking barriers

While others were busy protecting “tradition,” he was booking Black artists, upsetting sponsors, getting hate mail, and helping normalize something this country fought tooth and nail against: seeing Black people as talented, polished, brilliant, and worthy of admiration.

History has a funny way of exposing who was actually moving the culture forward while the loudest critics were standing still.

September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974

An indigenous artist drew robots

This is an idea that has floated around for years, perhaps even prior to the pandemic, when I'd just started to get into digital art. No matter how much I draw, pushing to create what makes me happy, I always find my art never sells the same as my woodlands pieces. People only want that woodlands style indigenous art. However, I really like robots. That fact will never change, even if artificial intelligence turns on humanity. Then, I thought, why not combine the two? So, I threw any and all caution to the wind and started scribbling.

This is the result.

Transformers x Woodlands style