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 Black
Is A Colour Not A Shade!
I give praises.
In all its splendid hue Black is a colour not a shade.
I have worked from that premise ever since the thread of creative
production found my veins.
Black does not function like shade.
Black is a commanding presence, not the marginal space of a reflected
existence, nor a fleeting opposite of light.
Black is a positive -a description of race, a reference to a
multitude of cultures, philosophies, medicines, art, wisdom, peoples.
Black is a kin to African - describes the bodies of Africans
of Canadian descent.
Black is a colour.
Black is a frame, a script, a membrane, a period, a body.
Black is a road to Africa-culture.
Black.
Gomo George was born in London, England, grew up in Roseau, Dominica,
and emigrated to Canada in the mid 1970s. He spent many years
in Winnipeg before moving to Toronto, where he now resides. He
obtained a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and an MFA from
the University of Western Ontario and has shown his work in group
and solo exhibitions in galleries across Canada for two decades.
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