Buddy I tattooed Quina on a few years ago framed his bandage, I just learned

Glowy glimpses and cosmic views

Little portals, new beginnings

Violet Green

Conjuring in the studio 🤲🏿🐚

Fruity bi cock

Fruity BIPOC

The title gives the scene this painting deeper meaning. “Paraclete” is a word often translated as comforter, advocate, or helper, and Nigerian artist Bamidele Ibrahim uses that idea to turn a quiet domestic encounter into an image of care as a spiritual and human necessity. This is not a lesson scene or a hierarchy of power. Instead, a seated figure appears to offer steadiness, refuge, and companionship to someone worn down by sorrow, fatigue, or uncertainty. The two women sit in an intimate interior built from pattern, touch, and emotional contrast. A dark-skinned Black woman with braided hair sits on a low, cloth-draped platform, her body angled forward in a protective, attentive pose. She wears a turquoise sleeveless top and a violet wrap skirt, and her expression is soft and caring as she looks down at the other woman resting against her. That woman is very pale with light blond hair, closed eyes, and a tired, folded posture. She sits on a cream-and-khaki checkerboard floor, one arm draped across her knees, her head lying on the yellow cloth near the first woman’s hand. She wears a black cropped top and a textured orange-brown skirt. Behind them, an arched window opens to trees and sky, while the wall blazes with wax-print textile patterns in orange, blue, purple, black, and white. At the right, a green potted plant adds another note of life and gentleness. The surface shifts between painted illusion and the look of real fabric, making the room feel warm, tactile, and inhabited. Born in Lagos, Ibrahim’s work often joins contemporary figuration with Ankara-inspired fabrics, intense dark tonalities, and themes drawn from social, religious, and everyday human experience. In this painting, those concerns come together with unusual tenderness. The patterned wall does not distract from the figures. It surrounds them like a living atmosphere, so that support, identity, and community are not background conditions, but the very fabric through which people endure.

“The Paraclete” by Bamidele Ibrahim (Nigerian) - Fabric & oil on canvas / 2023 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, Virginia) #WomenInArt #BamideleIbrahim #Ibrahim #VMFA #VirginiaMuseumofFineArts #AfricanArt #ContemporaryArt #art #artText #arte #BlackArtist #NigerianArtist #NigerianArt

Oh this needs the visuals 😍😍

*And it's the best by FAR

#art
#Blackart

Also a sidenote is that, I like Whitney but in general her albums are inconsistent quality. The singles are music history defining! Classics! Stunning!

And then the album tracks and b-sides are huge dips in quality.
pressing play from start to finish on a Whitney album? Its not hitting

This prompt doesn’t make sense because it speaks to a greater point about genre versus Black identity placing you in a genre.

With that said if I am playing along, i choose Whitney because she actually has the least amount of r&b music.
And then still gets to exist in pop/gospel history 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

@odera.bsky.social

I love the gay lispy gooner announcer putting on their best professional voice to announce the next skytrain station

Happy fat cock friday. Happy phallic facilitation. A hardcover sketchbook with a gesso’d icon of an erect fiery warm brown Black penis

New sketchbook updates incoming 🫰🏿

Hands, peen, and artist statements
Handjobs for the collective 🫰🏿

A hand caressing a hard penis Watercolor pencil on paper

A soft carress!
I know you smell that too 😌
Spring is in the air 🌸

A spread on a sketchbook thread Ass out. Thong in. Gorgeous passages of red oxides and yellow ochres. A drawing of a figure on their knees bum towards the camera

This sketch was supposed to be simple lines, but the paint called to me. Painted during golden light, so it was fascinating to see the colors shift outside of that

#queercorner #figuredrawing #painting #asssssssssgettinbigga #caaaaaaaashgettinthiquer

I just think its wild that this was a few days ago. And today i have on my scarf and sweater.
Meanwhile my friends from ny and nj are experiencing 83 f false summer days.

Little hobonichi techo sketches featuring @fifteenbestthings.bsky.social

My favorite time of the year—Its getting warmer and its officially apron and no pants season in the studio 😂

Posting nsfw work is affirming in a funny way. I used to give into ideas of professionalism & being taken seriously as a Black Queer African artist. So i’d compartmentalize.

Then I realized these people aren’t hiring me whether I play their game or not, so let me draw this Black coochie in peace 👼🏿

A spread on a sketchbook thread Ass out. Thong in. Gorgeous passages of red oxides and yellow ochres. A drawing of a figure on their knees bum towards the camera

This sketch was supposed to be simple lines, but the paint called to me. Painted during golden light, so it was fascinating to see the colors shift outside of that

#queercorner #figuredrawing #painting #asssssssssgettinbigga #caaaaaaaashgettinthiquer

A hand caressing a hard penis Watercolor pencil on paper

A soft carress!
I know you smell that too 😌
Spring is in the air 🌸

Hands, peen, and artist statements
Handjobs for the collective 🫰🏿

Happy fat cock friday. Happy phallic facilitation. A hardcover sketchbook with a gesso’d icon of an erect fiery warm brown Black penis

New sketchbook updates incoming 🫰🏿

Thankyou andré!!

Started a sketchbook for all my coochie drawings—nudity. the erotic as an antidote to stagnant grey dead things. pleasure as a birthright! Expanding the archetype of Black bodies not as object but as an access point to healing and transformation. Embodied landscapes! Phallic facilitation!!! 🌟🫰🏿😂

The Spirit Child is the purest version of ourselves. They represent the inner child that roams freely between the physical and spiritual realm. They freely jump from the precipice to start new journeys, knowing they are protected by the embrace of Spirit and the guidance of their astral companions. Whether that means falling into physical embodiment, or floating upwards into the collective cosmos, The Spirit Child is relentless in their need to explore, imagine, and play. The Spirit Child is a reminder that new beginnings are always possible, that we contain multitudes, and finding yourself is as simple as honouring your journey. ↑ New beginnings, Unlimited Potential, Finding yourself ❂ Egbe Orun, The Fool ↓ Disconnection, Stagnation, Naivety

The original painting on a wall amongst other prints and masks

The 18 x 24 print

Closeup

Print restock of The Spirit Child!

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Today I remembering to celebrate my inner child and remember that fully integrated adult me gets to make the decisions, break cycles, and make new ones!