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Slave Drawing

Charcoal, pastel on paper and canvas. This is how I began to use the anthropomorphic life drawings I did in life class. an expression of the horrors of the Middle Passage, where slaves were packed like sardines to be sold and used like tissues in Jamaica, one of the islands of my ancestry.
Slave Drawing

Charcoal, pastel on paper and canvas. This is how I began to use the anthropomorphic life drawings I did in life class. an expression of the horrors of the Middle Passage, where slaves were packed like sardines to be sold and used like tissues in Jamaica, one of the islands of my ancestry.