Photos by Cesar Melgar
I wanted to create homage to the Black Live Matter Movement, bypassing all of the dialogue and head straight towards the spirit of the movement. These are mystical times and I believe a true fight between good and evil is under way. Those young people protesting all across the world have now donned the wings of the Africans, who refused to be subjugated.
“Kevin will create a sculpture incorporating objects found on the Vineyard or donated by the community. Its theme will be The Legend of the Flying Africans from African American oral history. In the sculpture, the Flying Africans will become a metaphor for the #Black Lives Matter movement, powered by youth who can no longer accept the failings of a society they are to inherit. Like the Igbos in the legend, they will don wings and sail toward change and a home offering a better future and new normal. Kevin Sampson is a found object assemblage artist from Ironbound, NJ. Raised in a civil rights family, his first career as a police detective in Newark gave him “a unique perspective on the human condition.”
This will be moved shortly to the Carnegie Museum...on the Vineyard.
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