Seeking Hope On Canopy Road

Seeking Hope on Canopy Road

I am visual arts storyteller that descends from an extensive line of generational oral storytellers. My ancestral stories are the inspiration for my paintings. Seeking Hope on Canopy Road is a story of black love and social justice.

Gramps tells the story of what happened in our family after Emancipation when the enslaved ancestors became free. After they were set free, our family was not sure of what to do or where to go. Gramps said that Aunt Susie, who was a visionary had a dream that would offer hope for a brighter future for the family. In the dream she was told to gather the people in the family and tell them to put on their best clothes, to fix themselves up, bring their best skills and talents with them and follow the path of the canopy trees.

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