Messiah // Middle Child

Description

archival print with hand-touched elements, unique 1/1 | includes dark brown frame

 

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the Nations … He will not falter or be discouraged until he establishes justice on earth. – Isaiah 42:1,4

Skin like bronze and hair like wool.

One parent of African Descent and One parent of European descent. Unsure if Jew or Gentile … “African American”

In this work it brings a personal reference to ethnic, cultural, and physical identity. Referencing an androgenous figure, in memorial of Black American soldiers (like Trayvon Martin), wearing a hood, like the robe of Jesus. Like Trayvon, the hood, just like the ‘Seamless Robe of Jesus,’ was known as the last thing worn before his crucifixion.

An African elder once told me, you have a little African in you, you 100% African. We must love each other the same.

– b. Robert Moore