Maroon King/Heart/Hurt/Slave Painting

I Have recently comppleted three oil paintings looking at elements of race and Afri- American history in the Diasporic West. The painting entitled Maroon King /heart/ slave/ hurt is the depiction of an African Maroon who was once a king and is now enslaved the Jamaica. Because of his defiance and unwillingness to remain in slavery he fled the plantation, was caught and he is now being lynched. This oil painting incorporates text behind the portrait. This text uses words from the Rumi* poem entitled love makes. Rumi says: Love makes bitter things sweet. Love turns copper to gold. Sure With love dregs settle into clarity. With love suffering ceases. Love brings the dead back to life. Love transforms the King into a slave. Love is the consummation of Gnosis. How could a fool sit on such a throne? Rumi This poem aids me in my quest to understand how Afri-American history and the brutality inherent in it and also the love and humanity expressed by millions of enslaved human beings. I've attempted to incorporate these ideas into my subject matter. These ideas and concepts connect all three paintings. All paintings have the idea of King and slave is prominent elements within the pieces. The tension between King and slave is what I am expressing in these works but I am always interested in how various psycho- social tensions intersect with race and the Racialization of human bodies. It is my hope to reveal these tensions through my visual presentations. * The maroons of Jamaica - PortCities: Bristol The Maroons were escaped slaves. They ran away from their Spanish-owned plantations when the British took the Caribbean island of Jamaica from Spain in 1655. The word maroon comes from the Spanish word 'cimarrones', which meant 'mountaineers'.
discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against.../the-maroons-of-jamaica/



 *Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد رومی‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلالالدین محمد بلخى), Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlânâ, Mevlevî (مولوی Mawlawī, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rūmī (1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian[1][8] poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.[9] Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turkish, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries.[10] His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet"[11] and the "best selling poet" in the United States.[12][13] Wikipedia

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 16 H x 1 D in

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