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I Got Three Legs To Walk On. My Road Seems Dark As Night.
A few months ago I was informed of an opportunity to participate in a portfolio project along with twenty other alumni of the Kansas City Art Institute. The project involved creating an edition of prints for to be added to a portfolio of prints on my experience while I was a student at the Kansas City Art Institute. I decided to participate in the project because it brought back feelings of nostalgia while forging a link between life as I perceived it thirty six years ago and life as I perceive it now.
Thirty six years ago, I was a Senior Painting and Printmaking major looking forward to jumping off into a void which I called a career in art. My youthful optimism propelled me. I had come to the Art Institute at the age of nineteen, a beneficiary of the Civil Rights Movement in the state of Mississippi. KCAI had served me well, enabling me to polish my skills, develop new insights, while reaching across racial lines and to forge lasting friendships. I had come to Kansas City and was able to look back at Mississippi with pride and discover the impact Black culture of my native state had upon the world. I bolstered my self esteem and enhanced my personal identity. The legacy of hard work, determination, and perserverence which was so much a part of my past experience became an integral aspect of my value system. Thus, in many ways, the KCAI experience laid a foundation for the life I would live in the intervening years leading up to where I am today. Much has changed in my life and in the world around me. I have journeyed for Missiouri to Masssachusetts, Florida, Tennessee,and California. Today I find myself back in my native State of Mississippi. At the same time, much has remained the same. I remain committed to making art and to the art of printmaking. The print which I contributed to the portfolio is more about feelings and impressions and is not meant to be a narrative interpretation of an experience. The title is loosely derived from the words a Robert Johnson blues song (Stones in My Pathway) which struck a chord with me back in 1968 when I first heard it and has continued to remain fresh and relevant for me to this very day.
Thirty six years ago, I was a Senior Painting and Printmaking major looking forward to jumping off into a void which I called a career in art. My youthful optimism propelled me. I had come to the Art Institute at the age of nineteen, a beneficiary of the Civil Rights Movement in the state of Mississippi. KCAI had served me well, enabling me to polish my skills, develop new insights, while reaching across racial lines and to forge lasting friendships. I had come to Kansas City and was able to look back at Mississippi with pride and discover the impact Black culture of my native state had upon the world. I bolstered my self esteem and enhanced my personal identity. The legacy of hard work, determination, and perserverence which was so much a part of my past experience became an integral aspect of my value system. Thus, in many ways, the KCAI experience laid a foundation for the life I would live in the intervening years leading up to where I am today. Much has changed in my life and in the world around me. I have journeyed for Missiouri to Masssachusetts, Florida, Tennessee,and California. Today I find myself back in my native State of Mississippi. At the same time, much has remained the same. I remain committed to making art and to the art of printmaking. The print which I contributed to the portfolio is more about feelings and impressions and is not meant to be a narrative interpretation of an experience. The title is loosely derived from the words a Robert Johnson blues song (Stones in My Pathway) which struck a chord with me back in 1968 when I first heard it and has continued to remain fresh and relevant for me to this very day.
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Charles
on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - link to this photo
Charles
on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - link to this photo