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An Imagined World of Our Ancestors Heritage (Series)
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The children are portrayed in the past of an alternate reality, in a manner that embodies strength, pride, and self-assuredness.These pseudo-vintage images deliberately have an ambiguous time period with subjects who stare back, almost in defiance. The intent is that while created in the present, those in the future will see these images as reflections of the past African Americans would have had in a utopian world without baggage or oppressive history, images of ancestors that have never lived in a world that marginalized, mistreated, or viewed in any other in any other way but equal.
AUTHOR
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY/AWARDS/EXHIBITIONS
Tokie (Rome) Taylor works explore the figure through the use of photographic portraiture. Her artwork has ranged from capturing the likes of Coretta Scott King, African American empowerment, to narrative surreal portraiture. Her work uses photography as a basis to insert subjects into the past of an alternate reality. One in which they are portrayed in a manner that embodies strength, pride, and self-assuredness. These pseudo-vintage images deliberately have an ambiguous time period. The intent is that while created in the present, those in the future will see these images as reflections of the past African Americans would have had in a utopian world untethered by the faults of the reality of our American history. They came from families who loved them and viewed them as valuable members of society. They belonged without baggage or oppressive history. These are images of ancestors that have never lived in a world that marginalized, mistreated, or viewed them in any other way but equal.
2019 Exhibition: Remembrances Beyond the Veil- Auburn Avenue
Research Library on African Culture and History, Atlanta GA
2019 “Airport 2019" - Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2018 “Airport 2018" - Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Tokie (Rome) Taylor works explore the figure through the use of photographic portraiture. Her artwork has ranged from capturing the likes of Coretta Scott King, African American empowerment, to narrative surreal portraiture. Her work uses photography as a basis to insert subjects into the past of an alternate reality. One in which they are portrayed in a manner that embodies strength, pride, and self-assuredness. These pseudo-vintage images deliberately have an ambiguous time period. The intent is that while created in the present, those in the future will see these images as reflections of the past African Americans would have had in a utopian world untethered by the faults of the reality of our American history. They came from families who loved them and viewed them as valuable members of society. They belonged without baggage or oppressive history. These are images of ancestors that have never lived in a world that marginalized, mistreated, or viewed them in any other way but equal.
2019 Exhibition: Remembrances Beyond the Veil- Auburn Avenue
Research Library on African Culture and History, Atlanta GA
2019 “Airport 2019" - Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2018 “Airport 2018" - Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
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