Year : 2016
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 101.6 cm x 152.4 ( 40″ x 60″ )
Availability : 🔴 original sold ( private collector ) available as a limited edition reproduction below
Perspective : Learn to learn.
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek -Martin Luther King Jr.
Writing can be an experience of enlightenment for education, entertainment, and at times a necessity. Imagine if you will, standing in a foreign land unable to express your opinions, desires, and basic needs. Only to find yourself relying on symbols you have come to understand through the trial and error of others. This imagined thought you’re having was all too true for the men and women who lived as slaves not so long ago.
Key Points:
- Teaching her to write and identify the signs she will need on her journey up North to freedom.
- The lack of shoes allowed her to identify with her pupil.
- The woman on the porch is searching for her daughter (she obviously has an idea of where she may have gone).
- The freedom quilt with symbols used in the underground railroad movement.
- The hand hidden in the wheel barrel of hay ( someone beginning there journey)
- The book hidden in the tree from the reading lessons in the (By Any Means) painting.
That hand in the window, well it was placed there to mean one of three things . No right or wrong answer , just your opinion through your perception.
- 1. Helping her. Her look out. Warning her of someone approaching.
- 2. Wanting her to stop. Against the idea of learning due to fear of punishment .
- 3. Take me with you, I want to learn too. Teach me what you have learned.
Write the wrongs. Leave your history for others to learn from. Don’t be downsized, replaced, or obsolete due to a lack of knowledge. Learn from whomever and whenever. Remember you’re never too old to learn, perhaps just too smart. Let the young dog teach the old one a trick or two. Better to have lived knowing.
Limited Edition Giclée
By Every Means (reproduction)
$350.00 – $400.00
