Freedom Yes

£490.00

Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemuhle 330gsm paper hand-finished with acrylic paint with hand-torn deckled edges.
84cm x 69cm

Signed and numbered edition of 80.

Each print is hand coloured - therefore each print is unique.

Freedom yes is a painting depicting Rosa Parks, who was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her story has deeply inspired me and restored my faith in a theory that every little step matters, and that every single person and every small action can make a huge difference.

Her quiet and elegant strength is an inspiration for me and has empowered many people around the world. By not giving up her seat she has changed the course of history.

We live in this vast, overwhelming and unfair world where we can easily lose faith and it seems like our singular voice can’t make any impact, well Rosa’s story proves a point that it definitely can, and what's moreover she believed that “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” , every new day is yet another chance to make a difference.

We still have a long way to go, and our fight for equality and freedom for all isn’t over yet, but with icons like Rosa Parks in mind it gives me hope that we can do it, and every small step however quiet or unimportant it seems to us we must remember that simple action can sometimes spark a revolution! It brings a words of Martin Luther King to my mind “No one is free until we are all free”

In my painting I was trying to capture her peaceful and quiet power, she is depicted sitting down and as she has described herself she wasn’t sitting down because she was tired she was sitting down because she was tired of giving in, Rosa is also accompanied by a Strelitzia (bird of paradise) flowers which are believed to be a symbol of freedom and immortality, under her right elbow you can spot a fragment of the banner “Freedom yes apertheid no” that she was carrying at a 1984 march at the South African Embassy in Washington, protesting that country's racial policies. Which is a subtle reminder that she was a lifelong freedom fighter and that she has never given up trying.

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