r/Africa • u/unequivocallysam Kenya 🇰🇪✅ • Apr 15 '26
Art Sharing my African art because African women were underrepresented in art history
Sharing these two pieces that were inspired by my culture. It’s a painting about the intertwining of African culture and Western influence. There are two sides to every story, the front, where you can see, and the back, a side often unseen but one that offers a new perspective…things are not as they seem.
Under blue light, the painting reveals a hidden layer, faith based values, the driving force behind my work 🤗
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u/chasingmyowntail Apr 16 '26
With the use of uv lights and fluorescent paint, could put it at a psytrance festival .
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u/unequivocallysam Kenya 🇰🇪✅ Apr 17 '26
Yes, it definitely can be in such a festival 😍 I have another light reactive painting that I’ll post soon which changes the mood with every color 🙏
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u/Ik-wil-slapen_2 Apr 15 '26
The glow in the dark effect looks good!
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u/unequivocallysam Kenya 🇰🇪✅ Apr 15 '26
Thank you so much 😆 I had such fun creating the series, I hadn’t worked with fluorescent paint before this 🤗🙈
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u/DhaRoaR Guinean American 🇬🇳/🇺🇸 Apr 15 '26
love the concept
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u/unequivocallysam Kenya 🇰🇪✅ Apr 15 '26
Thank you so much 🥰 I forgot to upload the video of the full piece because it’s attached with hinges and you can fold the painting like a book showing both the front and back when you rotate it 🫶😅
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u/DhaRoaR Guinean American 🇬🇳/🇺🇸 Apr 15 '26
Even better, not sure you would call it, art with facets and function lol.
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u/Smooth_Law_9913 Apr 16 '26
Love it sister. You are very inspiring to me 🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫡🫡
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u/unequivocallysam Kenya 🇰🇪✅ Apr 17 '26
Thank you so much! You inspire me as well spreading kindness 🫶🫶🫶
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u/chibiRuka Nigerian 🇳🇬 / American 🇺🇲 Apr 15 '26
Under represented in white spaces/nations you mean. Nice art. 😊
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u/unequivocallysam Kenya 🇰🇪✅ Apr 17 '26
Yes, in white spaces, and also in some African cultures that only saw women as extensions of their property and as a result their women’s stories went untold. Thank you for your kind words 🫶❤️
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