What A Smile
What a Smile
By: Joyce Mosaic
Monochrome in the morning
Woken up numerous times before deciding to arise
Her maniacal laugh ought to excite her as she walks down the open street
Chiming sounds of pandora bracelets that made little girls pockets bleed
She exclaims for “what a smile I” carry
Carried caressed across my face
There is no do opp in my trot
Sunshine in my warm smile
Constellations on my cheeks
She still gorges in splendorous laughter
Let loose of the use of her legs
Lay down the laws for herself
Lounge in the open day
Selective of how she expresses herself
How she monologues even longer
It’s night
It’s safer outside
But it’s too cold to draw on the portico porch
She paces
Unsure where to place herself
Would you treat the situation different if it was someone else
She’s awake
She listens restlessly
to the sounds of the tuneless streets
Bowel like sounds coming from the
Depths of the night
She stays frozen in a hostage state
Each creak is a Constant
Catalyst to her heart
(There’s something missing)
Your search has timed out
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Ah Mer Ah Su-trans lady, electronic music
Aina Brei'Yon - lesbian, rap music
Angel Haze - pansexual & nb, rap music
Anye Elite - gay, rap music
Bali Baby - lesbian, hiphop music
be steadwell - queer lady, acapella music
Big Freedia - gay, bounce music
Cakes Da Killa - gay, rap music
CJ Run - bisexual & nb, indie rap music
Chynna - bisexual lady, rap music
Dizzy Fae - queer lady, r&b music
Domo Wilson - lesbian, rap music
Doria Roberts - lesbian, pop music
Drebae - gay, rap music
Eurotrill - butch lesbian, rap music
Frank Ocean - queer man, r&b music
ILoveMakonnen - gay, rap music
Janelle Monae - pan lady, hiphop music
KAYTRANADA - gay, rap music
Kehlani - queer lady, r&b/pop music
Keiynan Lonsdale - queer man, pop music
Kele Okereke - gay, indie rock music
Kelela - queer lady, r&b music
Kevin Abstract - gay, rap/r&b music
Kiddy Smile - gay, dance/electronic music
Kodie Shane - queer lady, hiphop music
Le1f - gay, rap music
Melange Lavonne - lesbian, rap music
Merlot - gay, pop music
Meshell Ndgeocello - bi lady, funk music
MNEK - gay, pop/house/r&b music
Mykki Blanco - gay, rap music
Nitty Scott - queer lady, hiphop music
Princess Nokia - bi lady, hiphop music
Quay Dash - trans lady, rap music
Rico Dalasam - gay, rap music
Serpentwithfeet - gay, gospel music
Shamir - nb, indie rock/house music
Shea Diamond - trans lady, pop music
Siya - lesbian, rap music
Starley - lesbian, pop music
Syd/The Internet - lesbian, r&b music
Taylor Bennet - bi man, rap music
THEEsatisfaction - queer ladies, hiphop
Tiara Thomas - queer lady, hiphop music
Tiffany Gouche - lesbian, r&b music
Todrick Hall - gay, pop/hiphop music
Tracy Chapman - lesbian, folk music
Tyler, the Creator - queer, rap music
VINCINT - gay, pop music
Young M.A - lesbian, rap music
Zebra Katz - gay, rap music
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March 2016 VS March 2019
where do u get the inspiration for the people in ur fab art? do u use references, if so where from? :)
Honestly from all over the place! Most commonly nowadays, I flip through a bunch of art/photos on twitter or instagram. I especially take advantage of the “saved” feature on instagram, which lets me look at a bunch of really pretty pictures at once. Here’s some examples of what that might look like, with the artist’s @ ’s added in. Warning, big photo dump incoming––and it’s only a fraction of the total number that I actually have, which is definitely around 2000 or so.
I’ll also save a lot of art (read: about 800 pics at this point) to a folder on my computer. Recently, quite a few of these have been coming from twitter; here’s a few examples of artists that I’ve had a soft spot for (handles included):
I tend to go absolutely nuts with finding stuff that inspires me, but I wouldn’t necessarily spend excessive time on it––when I say go nuts, I mean that I have a sustained interest in seeking out inspiration. The pics I have were collected over the course of five years or so, and the ones from near the beginning are somewhat different from recent ones.
If you’re trying to build up a collection, you likely don’t need to spend hours a day searching for this stuff (even more than twenty or thirty minutes is probably too much, unless you’re explicitly doing concept work and you need tons of references). If, while browsing tumblr or instagram or twitter, you come across a picture that really strikes you as beautiful, just save it. Over months and years of selecting choice pictures, you’ll eventually cultivate a taste in art/photos/whatever that will definitely affect the development of your style as you keep making art. Sort of a side benefit of this whole ordeal.
Have another little drawing :)
i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you
“The skin for me, that’s where my career kind of started. The skin was an access point. I started drawing in this patterned style back in 2004 and all I wanted to do—not really thinking a lot about race but it became race—was this idea of ‘What does skin feel like?’ when you’re defined by something. I came to the U.S. when I was five years old from Nigeria and had no knowledge of American history and was crash-coursed into it."—Toyin Ojih Odutola
[Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985), Between the Margins, 2017. Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 19 in. ©Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]
