Black Aesthetic: Flowers🌼🌺🌸 (I Do Not Claim Ownership Of Any Of The Above Photos.)

naomi campbell photographed by wolfgang tillmans for vogue us nov ‘97

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A list of things that should no longer be explained in 2019 because y'all have had ample opportunity to Google or listen:

The Black Lives Matter movement 

Representation matters 

Colin Kaepernick wasn’t protesting the anthem 

The validity of different sexual orientations

Non-black people can’t say the N-word

Feminism isn’t about hating men

Pro-black/ celebrating your heritage isn’t anti-white

Blackface isn’t okay

Minimum wage should be raised

Who’s considered a millennial

Feel free to add on

Hear me. See me.

All I want

All we want

Is to be heard, seen, and accepted

I understand that we all cannot be perfect. I understand that we all may not get along.

Lifestyles are different and I respect that

I am constantly respecting and understanding everyone else

But I ..

I still don’t feel accepted or understood.

I hear you when you say this is you

But hear me when I say this is me

I will not stop loving

I will not stop understanding

I will not stop

But one day I hope I don’t have to feel alone

One day I hope to be surrounded with energy that matches mine

One day I want to be surrounded by energy that wants to give as equally as it receives

I want to live in a light love

One that matches, and/or, amplifies the light and love that I do my best to put out

And when the burden of love breaks

I want to be understood why it broke , how I ended up here.

Forgive me for the one mistake I made when 90% of the time I am the complete opposite

I pray to one day be understood

I pray to one day live happily in a grace of bliss

One where I am unbothered by the burden of loving.

I love to love but sometimes when it’s not received it hurts and that’s the truth.

I can’t expect people to see or understand why I want to be there and be a light for them. But when they don’t understand I also can’t be upset that they didn’t accept it. I can’t expect people to see the light.

All I can do is continue to love and not worry

It’ll be received

They will be blessed

I will be blessed

Gods got me

I need to keep living

I need to keep loving

Weither it was asked for or not I should do everything with the utmost love and kindness in my heart.

That is the only way to love and the only way to make it

I have to keep doing it because that’s me, I can’t stop being myself.

I can’t hate myself for others not getting me, I can’t hate myself for putting myself out there and being rejected. I can’t hate myself for having a loving spirit. That’s not something that’s wrong.

I am not alone, I am loved.

Gods got me

if ‘get low’ was an indie tune (mumford and sons are shaking)

Busy weekend this week. Hopefully I can get back to my regular painting by Sunday. Gold Leaves 12in x 12in Ink on wood Available for purchase!

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Just because they were with you through your depression, doesn’t mean they have to stay with you through your progression.

Some of us stay with people because we don’t want to abandon them at a low point.

Some of us stay with people because we were with them through such low points and now that their doing better we feel like we earned the prize of their growth that came at the end.

Sometimes when we are the depressed and someone sticks with us we feel like we can’t leave because that person was with you when you were your worst.

But we have to evaluate.

If your growth means you have outgrown the relationship, then it’s okay to leave.

If that person was with you at your lowest but you don’t think they can help you reach your highest then it’s okay to bounce.

Part of growth is being able to recognize what you need, and then taking steps to obtain it.

If a person has reached the end of a relationship , then it’s okay to move on.

Don’t worry about being polite.

Worry about what’s best.

If the new you isn’t 100% here then it’s because the new you should be somewhere else.

If you are trying to think of ways to make something work then your ignoring the ease that will come with the right thing in your near future.

Look at the tortoise and the hare.

That bunny got too comfortable , he held himself back. He kept stopping to look at the flowers, take naps, and do eveything but move forward.

And the tortoise!

He may not have gotten there fast but he made it to his destination right on time.he got their right when he was suppose to. He knew where he needed to go and he didn’t let anyone or thing stop him from moving forward.

Now this could be your partner, your job, your friends, your family, your location, your strongholds.

Whatever is holding you back, leave it.

When you see what you could be

When you see where you could be

Once you know that your potential is endless

Don’t stop

Take yourself to the end.

The world will keep moving forward with or without you. But where do you wanna be ? Still holding onto something at the starting line, or jumping through the valleys of freedom and possibilities at the finish?

Let go

What is meant to be will be.

Image

Image

What you see

What others see

What you present

A representation

A symbol of the real thing

A 2-D idea of a 4D concept

A representation

an idea

something we put on

something others put on us

a representation of what we think we are

what we want people to see

 what people see

what is seen

something that can be manipulated

something that can be misinterpreted

a face

something to be interpreted

something that may or may not need an explanation

a glimpse

a peek 

of something

of nothing

a small dimension

a visual

something to be projected

something to project

a starting point

a midpoint

an endpoint

a snapshot

a thought

?

Why do we care about our images

why do other people care about the images they surround themselves with

how do we let images effect us

what do images invoke

what images do we evoke

how does my existence coincide with my image

what does my image say

what do I want my image to say

how does it make you feel

how does it make me feel

does it matter

why do we think it matters

why do we make people think it matters

what matters

the balance or the imbalance 

the presentation or the thing

why does the idea matter more than the truth

does it

to whom does it speak to

to whom does it matter

me or you

why

?

image

likeness

resemblance

depiction

a representation of an external form of a person or thing in art