FLIPPING THE SCRIPT!

The Visual Arts section of the Tdot Renaissance is around this central theme of flipping the gaze. Changing Perception. Reclaim and retelling the story the way it should be told by the one who experience the story. This idea ofcourse is not original as for centuries people have struggled, died and made sacrifices just to tell their own stories, the true story, our stories the ones they don't teach you in the colonial school system or his-story class which are usually very Euro-centric centered. 

Some of the artist who inspired me to tell like it is and flip the story and show/tell it how it should be or in the ideal way of how we'd like it to be.

Such Artist are;

D'bi Young 

who flips the idea of gender and being a black female.

Kevin "WAK" Williams

Who is a celebrate prominent painter and illustrator whose prints can be found in almost every Afrocentric household as his images show black love and a detailed man and womyn body in ways that have been seen often in many other popular artist's work.

 Hank Willis Thomas 

 He reapproipate and packages and expose the hidden messages that he feels are attached to certain brands and advertisments

Kehinde Wiley
 

A homosexual artist who flipped the script by illustrating black urban males in position and with posture of royalty and power layered with elegant Baroque and victorian influenced ornament designs.

There are many other ethnic artist who be flipping the script and flipping the gaze of what masses normally see and that is exactly what we who are apart of T-Dot Renaissance is doing and you can easily get a sense of that from this image that I create which is a reference to Leonardo Da Vinci's Virtuvian Man. Da Vinci's concept was to show the perfect porportioned man as he can fit in the standard shape of a sphere (the world) and a square (the universe). I decided to flip that script and show how even with imperfection and addatives we fit in our own world (an oval) and the universe still bounds us (rectangle) and to the heart beat of life we live as our drums is layered with symbolisms that sustain us like love, life, sexuality and other things.