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I’ve seen that nowadays technology has overtaken life, and cartoons are not as naive and innocent as before. I was inspired by my childhood friend Mickey Mouse.
The inspiration comes from a dream that I had the day I created this work. I dreamed that I was running in the Gorge of Diosso in Pointe-Noire and I saw a young lion cub that was apprehensive. When I wake up, I immediately draw this beautiful cub. It is sometimes in the simplicity of the mind and words that we create the most beautiful artwork.
I was touched by the beauty of dancing. I think I will always paint dancers. I was inspired by my grandmother who is a great dancer but who, with her old age, speaks only of these memories of past dance lessons in Africa. The colours are warm because the scene is happening in Africa but to give a narrative sense to the story, I put a garment that was not acceptable in the African culture of the 50s. The tree represents the harmonious relationship that our African ancestors had with nature, this nature with which we must live, share the environment with but also this nature that feeds us in food and air. The tree is black, and it releases a warm and vibrant energy.
I was inspired by the artificial side of tattoos … everyone does it to follow celebrities without any intelligent thinking of their own identity. I am a master of my own person and I only answer to God the father. Why shall I destroy that particle that I am, which is a part of the temple of God?
Is beauty essential? What will we do if beauty was dead? I was inspired by the ridiculous aspect of the red carpet; actors and other celebrities strutting in ridiculous clothes to make a dead rat vomit.
I am inspired by the situation in Africa, by those people who have experienced slavery, colonization and now the tyranny inflicted on them. Africa is lost, it no longer works because it is destroyed by those who think they are leading it. The dove that is the symbol of peace is killed forever without any regret. This bird returned to Noah holding in its beak an olive branch indicating that the level of the water had indeed fallen. When will the dove return to Africa to indicate the level of tyranny had indeed fallen?
After having a conversation with a stranger while waiting for the 71 bus not far from Kingston University, I had the impression of having heard the desperation of this woman, who appeared to be gentle and stable but who was suffering greatly from her past. I gave her a sheet of paper and then I asked her to write my past is behind me and my future is to God.I asked her to discard the sheet of paper and then never worry about it because she will be on the bus and this sheet of paper will be in the past.
On his face I used very dark strokes on a brown make up to represent the effect of the harshness of life. She is surrounded by little figurines floating around her. Green is used for the hope we all have of a better world.
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