Mark Delmont
Fall 2025 Cycle – Art
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"More than wives" 2024 84" x 47" Acrylic paint on wood panel They hold up generations The Mother of course Everything you got is because she wielded it so But Ma, who were you before being my mother? Did you play, and fall, and laugh, and dream Dream like I did?
"The Nights we were made" 2024 96" x 60" Mixed Media (fabric, stone, acrylic) on wood panel You had no idea Raising a kid in this country would be so conflictious That kid ain't Haitian, Jamaican, Trini, Puerto Rican or wherever ya’ll came from Them babies are black now Profilable, targetable, subject to oppression, prone to depression To be born a caged bird having not known flight or what it looks or even feels like but with wings that take up space like loose water Little giants Descendants of revolutionaries, or fairies Beings of fiction and folktale Where root doctors, farmers and voodoo priests still openly exist Now just little Black kids you made Atleast you made us And we’ll make something new again, like you did All that disco & funk lives inside of us, we gon be alright
"Aint no different" 2024 96" x 60 Acrylic paint on wood panel Many people of the African Diaspora come from all over the world to America. A Box, An Abyss, A Dream The realization that we all face the same struggles Forced to part ways with our culture and take on the preconceptions about of our identity and the limited archetypes available to us The world screams we’re no different I feel there is truth in that Truth in moving as a body of people subconsciously knowing we’re together
"Doing impossible again" 2024 96" x 60 Acrylic paint on wood panel We exist in a wasteland, as unbeknownst flowers, roses are for the dead so I’d rather be something different Well our whole lives we were handled like aloe plants and they have flowers But who waters an aloe plant? No one So we find the stream
"Talkin' to my self again" 2024 Mixed Media (ceramic til) on wood panel Dimension 52" x 79" My folks dont know how to listen, nobody did for them So I really only talk to you, it feels safe Sometimes you say the right thing Sometimes you add to my fears Atleast its private, atleast I know you got me Here's another reason to refrain from breaking mirrors
"The sugarshack of commerce" 2023 48” x 96“ Acrylic paint on wood panel Inspired by Ernie Barnes Sugar Shack. It was a beautiful depiction of our people unfiltered and unchained in an environment they’d created. Experiencing joy through dance. We needed something that represents our ability to conduct business outside of banks. A trading pool. Deeds, titles, goods, and services are exchanged here. Trading everything we have an excess of for what we don’t have access to. An operation we need today.
“As if they had wings” 2025 49” x 60“ Acrylic paint on wood panel None of this is safe if you ask us Life didn’t come with a harness and neither did this job We heard stories of people falling and losing their lives But I”m not losing this job My daddy had to figure it all out, and some way his sun will too 50 feet up smoking a Newport sitting on a something unfinished What’s new?
“We’ve seen these kids before” 2025 40 “ x 40“ Acrylic paint & steel on wood panel Tight-nit, all their mothers are friends They used to play throw up tackle out back They’re all thinking about making money now And becoming men, 14 year old men Feelings inside that they’ll play tug of war with until their 30’s, or further on Puddles of tears to train how to swim Oh but the inconsistent joys of sunlight Will charge us And we’ll cast shadows, for picnics, just like trees.
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