Locations subject to change
These paintings are artifacts
Time capsules capturing the current zeitgeist
Prizes for posterity studying sankofa
Relics of times to be ancient that depict our culture
Answering questions anthropological
Tangible remnants of fleeting presents
To be immortalized and preserved by
Museums that aim to convey
Glimpses into chronologically distant
Epochs and eras
Living in the pandemic,
social revolution
and the Renaissance all converging
This art speaks to a time fleetin and lived second hand
when recollected by collections of objects embellished with images
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There's a bigger picture most don't see
Don't peruse the museums and galleries
to find antiquated displays of creative techniques
novel in their inceptual era
commonplace to some degree
when the lineage admires forefathers through emulation
and taking up the craft
the tradition
These paintings are marks in time
Fruit from trees that don't grow no more
Endangered species prized because
the mortality of the progenitor limits the production of like pieces
signified with symbols giving proof of the existence of a person
of a people
of a time necessarily Fleeting yet remembered by
survived by
solidified in the akashic
these paintings may be
one day
the last indication of our existence
to outlive the lovers and the indifferent
to be loved by their grandchildren
to be discussed in their classrooms media and at auctions
fueling Assumptions and conclusions drawn about history
and the spirit of the times
giving the dreamers pillars to uphold
fantasies about times long gone
messages encoded most go unnoticed
only conspicuous to neurons digesting the information
subtle soft power uplifting a nation
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