
Blue Rose of Remembrance for Black Lives Gone Too Soon

by Aberjhani
Title
Blue Rose of Remembrance for Black Lives Gone Too Soon
Artist
Aberjhani
Medium
Painting - Fine Art Silk-featherbrush Painting
Description
“Blue Rose of Remembrance for Black Lives Gone Too Soon” follows the practice previously established with my “Breaking the Gridlock of Hate” and “Kaleidoscope Moon” series. The plan was to debut images from the new “Too Many Lives Gone Too Soon” collection closer to New Year’s Eve but 2 developments prompted the decision to do it now. The first was learning that yet another unarmed young African-American man had been killed, and his girlfriend shot twice, by a policeman under questionable circumstances. The second was becoming aware of the #EndSARS protests, during which more than 100 people have been killed, against police brutality in Nigeria.
The date of October 20, 2020, has become known as “Black Tuesday” in Nigeria because that is when at least 48 people were killed after gathering at Lagos’s Lekki toll gate to protest the overtly brutal tactics of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The shooting of 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette and his 20-year-old girlfriend Tafarra Williams in the U.S. state of Illinois also occurred on October 20. Hard to believe two countries as different as the U.S. and Nigeria would be struggling to correct such similar social atrocities but there it is.
We can’t really know the exact number of American Black Men, Women, and Children who have lost their lives to faulty police procedures or intentional racial bias over the past few years because not all come to public attention. In this most recent incident, Marcellis Stinnette reportedly was sitting in the passenger seat of a car in which Tafarra Williams, a mother of two, was the driver. No weapons were found in the car. The police officer said he opened fire because he was approaching the vehicle on foot when it appeared to be put in reverse and he feared for his life.
The beauty of remembrance when it comes to lives ended prematurely is that it helps preserve not only the sense of love experienced in regard to the departed, but the feeling of hope that whatever promises their lives held will somehow be fulfilled through memories of them. It is presented here in the style of an oversized close-up surrounded by different flora symbolic of different yet interrelated human stories.
Aberjhani
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October 28th, 2020
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Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Thank you Alfonso for checking out "Blue Rose of Remembrance for Black Lives Gone Too Soon." Very glad you enjoyed it.

Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Greatly appreciate your soul-illuminating response to "Blue Rose of Remembrance for Black Lives Gone Too Soon" Tejsweena Krishan as I do the astonishing artistry on your own exceptional canvases.

Tejsweena Krishan
An extraterrestrial appeal can be felt intensely touching ones soul to paragon in spiraling in love with loyalties and faith as per root of healthy relationship where both as one knows that what can affect one with what, so shall be doing that or not, and more my friend! Love this soothing, and calming creation with lovely effects of peace in love! :)

Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
My deepest appreciation to the BEAUTY IN ART Group for featuring "Blue Rose of Remembrance for Black Lives Gone Too Soon."

Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Thanks tremendously Angeles. For a lot of us, remembrance also also means remaining conscious of unresolved conditions because we are/I am in fact at risk of meeting with similar fates.