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Composition: Acrylic on canvas

• 36 x 48 inches (91 X 122 cm)

• Hand painted in 2025

• Signed by artist

This piece focuses on three things we all recognize but rarely think about consciously: the nose, the ear, the lips. These aren’t just body parts—they’re how we’ve carried our cultures forward, how we’ve held onto who we are even when the world tried to make us forget.

The nose recognizes things before we do. Its shape tells stories—where your people traveled from, what they survived, why certain features got passed down like heirlooms. The ear holds onto the sounds that make you who you are, the voices that connect you to everyone who came before. The lips do the hardest work. They speak the languages that almost got lost. They taste the foods that keep you tethered to home. They sing the songs, tell the jokes, pass down the wisdom.

What makes these features familiar isn’t just that we all have them. It’s that when you really look, you can see entire communities in their curves—generations of people who refused to disappear.