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NARO%

Artist, traveler, engineer, soldier…

36 seasons: Allstar

San Francisco

I dont paint for you, I paint for me.

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As one grapples, within… The face that shows is but a guarded representation, piecemeal if not only to prevent what one truly desires, but often to protect others as well as ones self. The contingency acts upon many levels, many minds forming one collective soul. The want mind, the hate mind, the work mind, the family mind, all have their own agenda, and at varying times command center fore, but alas all things, minds included at least in this consciousness are fleeting. It is at the moment when all minds concede from their travail, and we shun the standard common to us all as living, that you may allow your self to emerge. Unguarded desire, fleeting by all means.

To email the artist Naro% click here, view his portfolio here or visit his blog here.

To find out more about photographer James Van Der Zee click here.

Editor’s Note: Naro% is an artist whose work I have admired for a while. When I saw the above piece I thought that it so characterized and embodied the Harlem Renaissance period that I had to share it with others. Hope you enjoy.