Processing Trauma - Adumaadan

Shame

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:29:37 +0000

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

O my God, in you I trust;

let me not be put to shame;

let not my enemies exult over me.

Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;

they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;

teach me your paths.

Lead me in your truth and teach me,

for you are the God of my salvation;

for you I wait all the day long.

Psalm 25: 1-5

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Trauma 2

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:27:59 +0000

Trauma in Black Body

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:15:42 +0000

Adesumbo

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:13:14 +0000

Figure drawing of a typical African woman from West Africa.

Titled after the name of the model.

We have been sold a lie.

The African voluptuous female figure is not ugly but desirable.

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Black Girl Thrive!

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:05:26 +0000

Ethiopia

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:57:29 +0000

Eve 2

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:50:23 +0000

This was an experiment during the lock-down in 2020,
I literally churned out art works in response to the anxiety and uncertainties at the time.

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Creation

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:40:53 +0000

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,

and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought

forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it

was good.

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I See Men Like Trees

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:37:15 +0000

A borrowed quote from the Bible but a metaphoric reference to my real life

experiences of seeing human figures and anatomy in trees. A kind of abnormality

in my visual processing that serves my creative adventures well.

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Scars Don’t Heal

Taylor — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:33:16 +0000

Do you know that tree barks reflect

the scars and turbulence they’ve

been through?

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