DAVID UZOCHUKWU
DROWN IN MY MAGIC: GLEAM, 2019
Photography
80x100cm - Ed 3
125x100cm - Ed 3
125x100cm - Ed 3
© David Uzochukwu
pigment inkjet print on fine art paper - unframed.
Artist statement:
Mare Monstrum / Drown In My Magic channels the power of myth by explicitly visualising Black merfolk. It envisions water as expanse which the characters can be safe in. New lore shifts the entanglement of Black bodies and their environments, making unquestionably clear that they belong. No longer are they subject to whims of the tide, or must choose to drift into a void that holds the potential for destruction. Instead, the portrayed are equipped to survive, and find freedom in the monstrous.