Marcella Hayes Muhammad
Decatur, Georgia
Developing for over 40 years, my signature style of Plastic Space abstraction or “Plasticism” impacts the viewer with color, culture and movement.
Message
The sankofa bird appears frequently in traditional Akan art, and has also been adopted as an important symbol in an African-American and African Diaspora context to represent the need to reflect on the past to build a successful future. I challenged myself to represent this tradition using my signature style of Plasticism. By taking artistic license, I abstracted the bird to create a flurry of motion and the background represents the chicken wire enclosure showing a lack of freedom that Black people experience in so many ways.
The sankofa bird appears frequently in traditional Akan art, and has also been adopted as an important symbol in an African-American and African Diaspora context to represent the need to reflect on the past to build a successful future. I challenged myself to represent this tradition using my signature style of Plasticism. By taking artistic license, I abstracted the bird to create a flurry of motion and the background represents the chicken wire enclosure showing a lack of freedom that Black people experience in so many ways.
- Subject Matter: Plastic Space Figurative
- Current Location: Maruva DQ Studio
- Collections: Plastic Space Figurative
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