An indigenous Mesoamerican myth describes the discovery and opening of a mountain filled with maize, capable of providing sustenance to the people of the world. Nonetheless, hundreds of years after this event would have occurred, we continue to hunger— physically, emotionally, spiritually. The images and text of this blog will relay my own quest to understand the world around me through observation and reflection on the people and places encountered during my wanderings— people also searching, in a variety of ways, to partake of life’s bounty.
These photographs are of three Black men at the recent NYC protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd. In all of the images the person seems paused in reflection, as if taking in what is occurring around him. Each man is dissimilar to the others in demeanor, age, role and perhaps perspective; yet whatever their differences, they have converged into the same space as they negotiate their shared reality, making their way forward as Black men in America.
