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These two works are presented together as one meditation on memory, displacement, and the enduring pull of the motherland. One image reflects the Door of No Return along the West African coast. The other centers the westward gaze of Benkos Biohó in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia.
For the artist, a Black American raised in California, this work also reflects a personal sense of layered distance. Living far from the soil of the American South, disconnected from large cultural centers, and still learning the fragments of African migration patterns that shaped her lineage, there is a feeling of standing several generations removed from home.
The Door of No Return represents a rupture that still echoes through identity. Benkos’ gaze toward West Africa becomes a gesture of searching.
The work is inspired in part by Kendrick Lamar’s Momma, a reflection on returning to origins and confronting what it means to belong. Within the African diaspora, the yearning often carries a deeply feminine quality. It is the desire to return to the mother, or at least to know where she is.
Size: 18×24 inches
100% of your payment goes to the artist
These two works are presented together as one meditation on memory, displacement, and the enduring pull of the motherland. One image reflects the Door of No Return along the West African coast. The other centers the westward gaze of Benkos Biohó in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia.
For the artist, a Black American raised in California, this work also reflects a personal sense of layered distance. Living far from the soil of the American South, disconnected from large cultural centers, and still learning the fragments of African migration patterns that shaped her lineage, there is a feeling of standing several generations removed from home.
The Door of No Return represents a rupture that still echoes through identity. Benkos’ gaze toward West Africa becomes a gesture of searching.
The work is inspired in part by Kendrick Lamar’s Momma, a reflection on returning to origins and confronting what it means to belong. Within the African diaspora, the yearning often carries a deeply feminine quality. It is the desire to return to the mother, or at least to know where she is.
Size: 18×24 inches
100% of your payment goes to the artist