I aM Horatio:
The Art Firm. Art is for the SouL...
Photo Credit: Gordon, A MaN who ran away from a Mississippi plantation.
12 YEARS AFTER JAMESTOWN
The Art Firm will tell the truth in a visual and literary format. The starting point is Proto (before) America when this land was Native American Nations, African Indigenous, and European Colonies. Jamestown was founded in 1607, twelve years later, in 1619, Africans were beaten, raped, and kidnapped into submission as American slaves. We draw the story.
AN IRONIC DECLARATION
English colonists declared independence from England and King George III in 1776. The themes chanted throughout the Revolutionary War against England [1775/6 - 1783] were "Life, Liberty, and (Justice via and simultaneous) a pursuit of Happiness." The Rebels known as "Patriots" (the word patriot means "rebel" - actions against the kingdom of England were rebellious, thus, patriotic...) won the war and America was born. Before, during, and after the war for Freedom and Liberty, American slavery was preserved. A wretched institution of one hundred and fifty seven years (157) at Declaration... and aging until 1865, two hundred and forty six years (246) of American brutality and forced labor, then Jim Crow - racial segregation and social hierarchy, American Feudalism. What impact and effect must that generational brutality, oppression, and the legal establishment of a social hierarchy, have on a people? You will see.
TODAY
Past is prologue.
Black and Brown cultures are not subcultures. Black and Brown is indigenous, pre colonial America. History as written by the colonists is being redressed vis a vis the perspective of the indigenous and the diasporic. The articulation of being without censor or compromise is a social justice in every American way. This world is changing.
America is engaging a reckoning. I AM Horatio: the Art Firm is illustrating that American state of being through image creation of great beauty and the truths of the graphic other(s). The objective (of the symbolism and illustrative depictions) is to inspire thought, then positive deeds, that will yield one, true, egalitarian America. Equality, without compromise, is the goal of Social Justice. "No fear" is freedom, as per the articulations of Nina Simone. We, therefore, engage American existentialism, as truth, without fear or favor, as per the doctrines of freedom itself. Join with us. Through stark and colorful illustrative potrayals, we describe and symbolize the many facets of American existentialism in all of its visual forms from 1607 to 2025 and beyond, a four hundred and eighteen year (418) journey that continues...