#Aurira Honeywell

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Sexypink - This thought provoking sentiment about the underlying meaning and more so, genetic underpinnings regarding the colors BLUE and BROWN brought about an awareness I have had for some time about the chosen palettes of many Artists of color over the last decade.

I chose to take a look at and extract portions of works by Artists featured this January to draw attention to the hypothesis being made by Imani Perry ( Black and Blue:How a color tells a story of My People) and to simply add my own observation particularly related to blue. I too have found it cleansing, spiritual, speaking to me and coveting it as a must have in some form or fashion in my personal space.

Brown as well has never been seen as a muddy or dirty colour. To me it is rich and skin based, hues to be embraced and enjoyed when adding reds or blues to bolster a tone or undertone.

However I am by no means glossing over her scholarship. We still wince when someone says, she so black she blue or he brown like dirt itself. It trips off many tongues to denote colorism in our diasporic and home based culture.

So no, I have not forgotten how colour is more than the sum of its parts and in acknowledging this, I agree with Imani Perry that a look and a book about the politics, ethics, aesthetics and more about the blue and the brown is an urgent read at this time.

What’s your take on these observation?

Selected Artists from left to right -:

David Gumbs (Martinique) Alanis Forde (Barbados) Aurora Honeywell ( Trinidad and Tobago) Shari Phoenix ( Barbados) Mafalda Nicholas Mondestin ( Haiti) Richard Nattoo ( Jamaica) Phillip Thomas ( Jamaica) Brian Ashing ( Trinidad and Tobago)