#73 ACY#3 SPS #15- AMERICAN OTHER COLLECTION OF 50 | Arvid Choudhury

Mixed media on canvas panel-ceramic paint, mixed media gel stick, crayon stick, incense + palo santo ash, mehndi (henna), cerne relief, 2023
18x24"

Each piece from AMERICAN OTHER A COLLECTION OF 50 is anchored by words/ideas/thoughts/text/phrase that Choudhury wants to explore & communicate.
 
A play on Edvard Munch’s THE SCREAM OF NATURE, part of the self-portrait series with AMERICAN OTHER COLLECTION OF 50, the self-portraits are of the feeling and emotional state brought on by Choudhury's existence as an other in America.
Text in background-causation belief, crosses and priests, preach brother preach, teach mother teach, fathers relief gonna come with my grief, I don’t preach bean pies and bow ties, but in a land where the hope dies it is all so irreverent…