I am Ynsehaï, self-taught artist from Guyana and from the African diaspora expressing my creativity through acrylic painting and digital art.
Why kamite art? Because art is a great way to magnify black identity and restore historical truths.
Slavery and colonization have more or less broken the generational transmission of African knowledge and arts.
Our violently enslaved African ancestors did not choose to be deported to the Americas or around the world.
As children from the diaspora, everything refers us to our Africanness even though today many Afro-descendants still find it difficult to celebrate their african origins because they are mixed or born on a continent other than KAMA.
"I am African, not because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me."Kwame Nkrumah
Our dances, our music, our languages, our hairstyles, our sciences, our spirituality, our arts and our customs more generally were transmitted to us by our ancestors who, in spite of the colonial bludgeon, the cultural alienation and the racial discriminations undergone, didn't resigned themselves to losing their culture. Moreover, black culture has always influenced and inspired the whole world.
Today, the new generation is determined to lift the veil of historical lies and the manipulation of discourses that would confine self-assertion and the valuation of its history in sterile debates of communitarianism and anti-non-black racism.
The will of the black community which makes the choice to educate itself on its true and majestic history arises from the wish to reconnect with its roots which are anchored on the continent of KAMA and to aspire to the unification of the black people. This is all the more legitimate in an environment shaped to exclude minorities and in which they have always been and continues to be stigmatized in this century.
Art pays homage to ancestors and to oneself. This is why I made the choice like others to represent black women and men proud and aware of their heritage and the values that they must carry.
The artist is a broker of emotions, values and thinking so I hope that my creations will inspire you.
HOTEP ☥
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