I aM Horatio:
The Art Firm. Art is for the Soul.
black history is American History
1619 一
12 Years after Jamestown
The Art Firm will tell the truth in a visual and literary format. The starting point is Proto (before) America when this land was Native American Nations, African Indigenous, and European Colonies. Jamestown was founded in 1607, twelve years later, in 1619, Africans were beaten, raped, and kidnapped into submission as American slaves. We draw the story.
1776 一
An ironic declaration
English colonists declared independence from England and King George III in 1776. The themes chanted throughout the Revolutionary War against England [1775/6 - 1783] were "Life, Liberty, and (Justice via and simultaneous) a pursuit of Happiness." The Rebels known as "Patriots" won the war and America was born. Before, during, and after the war for Freedom and Liberty, American slavery was preserved. A wretched institution of one hundred and fifty seven years (157) at Declaration... and aging until 1865, two hundred and forty six years (246) of American brutality and forced labor, then Jim Crow - racial segregation and social hierarchy, American Feudalism. What impact and effect must that generational brutality, oppression, and the legal establishment of a social hierarchy, have on a people? You will see.
2022 一
Today
Past is prologue.
America is engaging a reckoning. I AM Horatio: the Art Firm is illustrating that American existential crisis. A living organism is not able to heal until, first, a grave wound is acknowledged. Through stark and colorful illustrative depictions, we describe and symbolize the many facets of American existentialism in all of its visual forms from 1607 to 2022, a four hundred and fifteen year (415) journey that continues...