Mankind: Your Kind of Man is about the contemporary male influenced by the concepts of identity, othering and belonging, deriving from post-colonial literary thought. The body of work features masculine subjects and throughout uses a combination of patterns inspired by contemporary African art and colours which are juxtaposed against one other to create a sense of the racial classifications that existed in the Colonial West Indies. Through these distinct features of my work, I seek to tell a story about each of the figures and/or objects within my work of power and a lack thereof. I also seek to disengage the idea that as men we have to be powerful as well.
The concept of identity, othering and belonging has stuck with me since my initial study of post-colonial literatures in English. Through these images, I seek to find my own identity. Is it shaped really by mankind or my real perceptions of who I want to be ultimately? Who determines who I am and what I do as a man? Am I the kind of man that mankind wants me to be or am I the ‘other’?
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AUTHORMikhail Williams is a Jamaican mixed media artist and writer based in Kingston, Jamaica. His writing explores the issues of gender and race in the Caribbean. ARCHIVES
May 2017
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