Cornel West Portrait
Paper
2024—09
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Mixed Media on paper
13”x17”
Acrylic, ink, charcoal, watercolor, pastel chalks, and very minimal collage all went into this portrait of Cornel West that I wanted to make as tactile, hands on, and human as possible. Far from the slick, cold, unrealistically polished veneer of corporations, and certainly far from anything a graphics software could conjure up, at least convincingly, this is a very human portrait of someone I deem a very humane person.
I utilized the portrait in a poster design I created in support of West’s presidential candidacy, available for free hi-res download.
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