afro-surreal:::i mentally dabble in this but its intricately woven through my ethos

check it. took the words outta my mouth (or brain. or heart). if only i had time and opportunity to play in this sandbox. one day. its coming. on pause for now but ooooooh hearts...

YESSSSS to all this:

(image from the tumblr, source??)


"2. Afro-Surreal presupposes that beyond this visible world, there is an invisible world striving to manifest, and it is our job to uncover it.

“3. Afro-Surrealists restore the cult of the past. We revisit old ways with new eyes. We appropriate 19th century slavery symbols like Kara Walker, and 18th century colonial ones like Yinka Shonibare. We re-introduce “madness” as visitations from the gods, and acknowledge the possibility of magic. We take up the obsessions of the ancients and kindle the dis-ease, clearing the murk of the collective unconsciousness as it manifests in these dreams called culture.”

3. Afro-Surrealists restore the cult of the past. We re-introduce “madness” as visitations from the gods, and acknowledge the possibility of magic. We take up the obsessions of the ancients and kindle the dis-ease, clearing the murk of the collective unconsciousness as it manifests in these dreams called culture.

4. Afro-Surrealists use excess as the only legitimate means of subversion, and hybridization as a form of disobedience” ~fiona foley

5. Afro-Surrealists strive for rococo: the beautiful, the sensuous, and the whimsical. We turn to Sun Ra, Toni Morrison, and Ghostface Killa. We look to Kehinde Wiley, whose observation about the black male body applies to all art and culture: “There is no objective image. And there is no way to objectively view the image itself.”

7. The Afro-Surrealist wears a mask while reading Leopold Senghor

10. Afro-Surrealists create sensuous gods to hunt down beautiful collapsed icons."