Gold Member juxtaposes military camouflage uniforms and the drill bit used in oil exploration. Oil Wars ii depicts the centrality of the Oil and Gas industries in the Middle East. These paintings also considered the role of Oil in the Arab World, and how Oil and War have become inextricably bound.
As young adults, Maharajiah and her husband were forced to leave Kanpur to survive. They served a period of indentureship in Fiji, where my grandfather was born. The family then took on a second term of indentureship in Trinidad, where they remained.
The title Fe Head refers to the chemical symbol for iron, “Fe”, derived from the Latin ferrum, suggesting that the subject is an “iron man”; an emotionless, inhuman entity.
Only a few days after finding his settlement raided and his army reduced to nothing by an expedition of white men, Tamanaco – imprisoned – was forced to fight for his life in jaw-to-jaw combat against Amigo, one of Garci-González de Silva’s hunting hounds.
KAY-ANN HENRY “The nightmare is that there are two worlds. The nightmare is that there is only one world, this one.” — Susan Sontag an embroidered dove flies off the fabric that mother and sister kneaded materializes into...
ALIXA BROBBEY Smooth weapons in their hands, I’ll take care of snipers. and frantic fingers. Just get there as quick as possible. Insults piercing the air Just drive! Just drive. Drive, you idiot. like the bullets Freaking...
Mention of the war caused Jimani to involuntarily bite the chew stick he was cleaning his teeth with. That was the day he lost both his sight and his mother. The irony! To be physically wounded by the enemy’s weapon long after they’d assailed him mentally.
Johnson was one of the most popular American presidents of all time. A charming, intelligent, Black, Republican, working class, energy entrepreneur, podcaster candidate from Texas. You couldn’t have made it up. The second Black President, first Black Republican President and unlike Obama, no Kenyan, Hawaiian or Indonesian background for the crazies to attack. An “American-Made” President.
Kids deep in sleep
or supposed to be,
but I could hear him clear his throat
as if not to surprise himself
when he turned the corner
to the backyard garden.
Jah had been painting the earth into existence all day, paintbrush in one hand, fat spliff in her lip corner. That night, the heat was more oppressive than a colonizer. So she turned up the Lasko Fan.
