30”x40”, acrylic on canvas
Painted: 2020
Written: 2020
By: Justen Okanemi

“Since childhood we’ve been conditioned. Be it by religion, media, folktale, education or even something as simple as children’s books. Whether by normalizing racial epithets, pedophilia, violence, etc; it isn’t until later that most of us learn of these things... and then the task is presented to unlearn it.”