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The Soaring Hour (Self Portrait)
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%C2%A9 Delita Martin
Relief printing, charcoal, acrylic, colored pencil, decorative paper, and hand-stitching on paperexpand_more
Gift of funds from Barbara Longfellowexpand_more 2019.35.1
Delita Martin’s large-scale works on paper combine printmaking, drawing, and painting to celebrate Black women as icons of strength and community. Finding inspiration in oral traditions and vintage and family photographs, Martin’s work explores the art of storytelling. By depicting her subjects as matriarchal symbols, she offers greater understanding and appreciation for the role of Black women in their families and communities. Her most recent body of work, the series "Between Spirits and Sisters," is inspired by the Sande society of West Africa’s Mende people, an exclusive community of women that prepares Mende girls for their transition into womanhood. In her self-portrait, The Soaring Hour, Martin addresses her own dual existence between the physical and the spiritual.
“The duality of women in this body of work project the spirit and its connection to the physical world, which reinforces the bond amongst women and how they co-exist in the physical and spiritual realms. The mask seen in the work is my interpretation of the Mende mask, specifically created for young girls being initiated into Sande. These masks are created as a reminder that human beings have a dual existence viewed as one body.”—Delita Martin, 2018