Last night, Brokey and I were attempting to one-up each other by pointing out cheesy, hackneyed displays of Afrocentricity. (You know what we mean: that dreadlocked-Jesus-on-the-cross-ass stuff.)
I offered up this. She countered with this. I came back with this. And she came back with …well, see for yourself.
“Wtf is goin on there??!” she asked. A terrific question. I made a joke about tub farting. She suggested it was the Almighty watching some lovemaking and interceding. (Because, you know, we’re 12.)
Best caption wins a cowry shell necklace, a sleeve of Nag Champa, and a lifetime supply of Self-Love™.
I honestly think this is God creating Eve out of Adam’s rib. I already have a cowrie shell necklace; can I get a made in China kente-print dashiki instead?
you can never have too many shell necklaces. just double up.
(Think Mr. T with Knowledge of Self.)
Jesus is hawt.
it keeps making me think of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Batman497.png
“Coming to Break You Off” – God (I know I am going to hell for that one) Maybe a weird afrocentric version of Joseph, Mary and God? (since you did mention black jesus!)
Ooh, you know you are wrong for that!
I don’t have a caption, but it totally looks like god is snapping that poor woman in half.
My Bible trivia guess would be that this is meant to be a picture of Eve being made from Adam’s rib? But as for a caption, I got nothing mroe clever than WTF?
When in doubt, turn picture upside down. It still might not make sense, but at least you tried.
What’s up with the white hands? I feel like there’s a joke in there somewhere about skin-so-ashy-it’s-dusty and the dangers of not using lotion regularly. Something like that.
Kerry James Marshall speaks to some of the issues in this type of work.
Looks like either death is taking her from him or a dream is bringing her to him. Either way, stuff happens. Either way, how come there aren’t any skinny chicks in Afrocentric art?
A tongue-in-cheek defense of patriarchy? Just follow me – the caption reads:
‘This is her body, broken for you’.
This reminds me of the kind of art they had in this hair salon I used to go to. The artist obviously has some talent (as far as the shading and proportions go), but it looks like two chalky hands breaking a woman in half with smoke coming out of her…and I’m not sure what to make of it. Not understanding the man. Maybe the hands already finished breaking him in half? I don’t know. Hilarious, nonetheless.
It looks like Adam Smith’s Invisible hand is about to crack her in half, dip her in butter, and then take a swig of beer.
l laffed. :-/
“I heard that if you let the spirit hold you, you can’t get pregnant after.”
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