June 2, 2020 #blackouttuesday
I'm sorry for my silence until now. It's been almost a week since black out Tuesday but I feel before I can post any art or updates I need to address this. This website is for my artwork which is mostly animal related and will probably stay that way. However, with each of my animals, I try to tell their vulnerability to endangerment. Animals don't have a voice to speak out so I try to help give information with my art to help inform people of the hardships they deal with. In many instances, their hardships are due to human actions. As humans, we aren’t just hurting animals with our actions, we are hurting each other. Black people have voices, are speaking out about how they are being discriminated against and killed, and are asking for help but they are still not being heard. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery are the most recent victims in a long list of those who have been killed. Each new name added to this list is heartbreaking but also raises so many questions. Why does this continue to happen? How can we prevent further discrimination and death? On top of all of this, we have this pandemic. Since April, I've been listening weekly to the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Private Sector Call Updates on Coronavirus (found on their YouTube page). During a few of those calls, Dr. J. Bulter talked about "some of the risk factors that have been observed that account for the higher rates of disease among African Americans."(https://youtu.be/bFhxNMfm4GA). I cannot just listen to all these reports and not say something. In my art and life, I need resources to inform me. Please comment below or PM me with any resources you feel are helpful in learning and informing others to help the Black Lives Matter movement. So far I have collected a few here: I have been recommended a book called “So you want to talk about Race” by Ijeoma Oluo. The Black Lives Matter website has many resources including for COVID-19. They also have anbexcellent web series called "What Matters" found on their website (https://blacklivesmatter.com/whatmatters/).
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I'm just a doodling artist. My current style started in a lecture class at MCLA where I began doodling in my notebooks. Now I've started a new series focusing on animals. Archives
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