I don't want to do black specific projects because that's all anyone does anymore. Personally, fukk modern black art. I see photographers that are black and 9 times out of 10 if I see their stuff I already know what I'm going to see: protest shots, something about race. It's fukking boring at this point and feels like a giant grift. I lived in NYC and almost every photographer that was black had the same stuff. It's fukking boring. I have no idea what these people think of the world outside of the confines of the topic of blackness. What do they think of God? Morals? Gender? Tradition? What are their values? Back in the day, the black art was far more diverse in terms of topic. Now it's all the same shyt and white liberals use us for their agenda. I feel like if I do a black project I need to do it just once, move on, and never bring up race again. I have one-dimensional art and how cacs are free to talk about any subject they want to but for whatever reason I have to talk black man plight because I'm black. Tired, tired, tired of it.
I hate black pain porn.
My stuff normally features black people, but not black people exclusively. But I try to go around the topic of blackness. I am inspired by the stuff I grew up with like Cosby Show and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where black was treated as normal. We loved them because we related to them not because they were black. So my stuff is "color blind" so to speak and I try to make black normal by evading the topic of blackness. I take photos of black people living life but it's not about black pain. My making the topic of blackness the main topic in your art you are by extension making blackness to be abnormal. I treat it as normal. I am not interested in black politics. I am interested in the every tapestry of black people living life in our different shades, viewpoints, and worldviews.
