I was raised to believe that within sacred space of rest and play, navigation through mourning and meaning-making,
\n and to love our people was a requirement for acceptance with anyone who understands,
\nspeaks to the cycles of disappearance and return in New York.<\/p>\n
growing up in a web of protection, I cannot always see
\nworship of women and non-binary energies while honoring those who have shaped my journey are straight from a storybook.<\/p>\n
the internal calculus of growing up as an intelligent Black child in predominantly white spaces
\n– where curiousity often came cloaked in condescension built on a foundation of trust…
\n\u201cpretty for a black girl\u201d or praised for speaking \u201cso well.
\nas if through the night or through expanding
\n i stepped from behind the lens and into the frame and transformed them.
\nthough the element of masochism in beauty weren\u2019t mine to inherit and i laugh because it\u2019s hard to keep up with the life without living it.
\nprotectors,advocates, and embodiments of Black at odds with how the art market and online audiences currently anoint artists.
\nwhen i began making decisions that included me in the equation,<\/p>\n
i discovered how deeply that unsettled people
\nwith the mythic grandeur of a scandal
\ncentered on dehumanization
\nand without apology.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J. TheGodIs Sanchez<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3202,"featured_media":404169,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"o","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[486,180],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/404168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=404168"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=404168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}