By: Joyce Owens

Joyce Owens — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:10:50 +0000

First of all, I love Danny Simmons’ new work. I realized when I was teaching at a predominantly black university in Chicago I had to present a lecture on Anthropology, explaining to them why they looks the way they do. And I also brough up the Garden of Eden asking the students where could it logically have been in not in Africa. I want to say Halima Taha is an exquisite ad insightful writer…Thanks for presenting her new work here…This sentence got me early on, “Within this narrative classism and white supremacy coexist as a language understood by its prey, but not comprehended by its perpetrators.” Thanks Black Art in America!

By: Rev. Anita Marshall

Rev. Anita Marshall — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:38:50 +0000

This article is more than a review of the Danny Simmon’s exhibition. It is a critique of white supremacy and breaking free of a political, social, economic, and psychology system that has separated humans globally for centuries. For me it is a look at returning to the Garden of Eden in human experience and fully knowing that all humans have the same DNA.
Her article is a positive approach to approaching life in an abstract dimension, rather than with what our vision presents to us in real time. It opened by sense of approaching life that with the boundaries imposed by my social location. I must look beyond and be accepting of all dynamics in the real world. I must value others while critiquing others. I must draw from diverse cultures and mores and adopt what is of value for me in living peacefully and compassionately with what I might be tempted to reject. I must use the past as a stepping stone to living a fully life as a move into a more inclusive and more complete future.
I could go on and on. Love this article. Thanks.

Comments on: A Sailcloth’s Soul: Danny Simmons

By: Joyce Owens

By: Rev. Anita Marshall