In a previous post we shined light on some of Kehinde Wiley's Rap artist portraits for VH1's Hip-Hop Honors show. These paintings, disturbed me with their scenes of young Black males as they lay dead with backdrops of flowers. There's something very dream like, perhaps nightmarish about the juxtaposition of visual elements and color. And being from Baltimore, seeing what's happening in the city with young Black youth everyday, these images hit so close to home that they might as well be hanging on the walls in th eliving room.
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