THE BELDAM

data thief / da realest surrealist

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“And She Was Loved” (2019) for Toni Morrison

“My Love is My Hunger” (2020) for Ntozake Shange

both by me

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@archive_bone ☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️ all for YOU!! 🫵🏿🖤♾️

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“Companions of the Garden” (2025) is currently on view in New Orleans! 😁

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@archive_bone 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ WAKE THIS UP!!!! Congrats alwaysss captain!! It’s j the beginning!! 💞💞💞💞💐💐💐💐💐🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿

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Thank you to the New Orleans Photo Alliance and the Kolaj Institute for selecting my work to be a part of this showcase! And to Lakeside Photoworks for this beautiful and vibrant rendering of my piece ❤️🌹

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This piece is featured in “Light in Cut Paper”, an exhibition exploring the intersections between Photography and Collage as artistic mediums.

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Condé wrote Segu sooo ruthlessly 😭 she killed off everybody!! 😩

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yall don’t understanddd, I really prayed for this to go back into print! i almost bit the bullet several times to spend $$$ for an original copy 😭

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🥹🥹❤️❤️♾️♾️

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no fresh produce AND no fresh air???

I’m moving back to Gambia

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and this is why I keep my work to my self! cuz I actually get mad 😃

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i really don’t understand how people get away with such a huge lack of professionalism in artistic/literary/“creative” spaces. you may not take your own work seriously but don’t think that kind of apathy will fly every time, especially not if MY work is involved

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I really don’t like having to (professionally) read people at this point in my life but I absolutely will if you handle my contributions to your “platform” with whatever carelessness you approach your own life with. Keep that shit over there!

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I want someone to love me the way Dionne Brand loves Mingus’s Pithecanthropus Erectus ❤️‍🩹

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