MOCADA | Yasmin Hernandez Art

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2022 MoCADA Submission
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Child painted as angler fish with glowing filaments and lamp against a black background. Text reads: we set out with our babies in tow in search of the violated womb because if we return to her, we can wage reciprocal healing.

Color pencil drawing of woman with head wrap in blue and the rainbow colors of a comb jelly sea creature against a black background and the green map of Boriken.

Rainbow-colored Color Pencil sketch of a man with a rooster on his shoulder and a map of Puerto Rico with red seismic concentric circles against a black background.

Painting of a woman in transparent colors inspired by deep sea bioluminescent creatures, concentric circles and map outlines of Brooklyn and Puerto Rico against a black background.

Painted in colors of deep-sea bioluminescence, a mother and her two toddlers, hand in hand, walk into a portal of blue concentric circles in the dark expanse of the abyss with glowing jellyfish.

Man with arms crossed in B-boy stance stands underwater in the colors of blue bioluminescence, surrounded by fish against a dark blue background.

Smiling girl with a galloping white horse over her shoulder and the map of Vieques island painted in a fantasy scene submerged in bioluminescent blue waters.

Images of the boys of the Central Park Five juxtaposed with their portraits as men, now the Exonerated Five, painted in red, black, yellow and green, inspired by fireflies. Umi Says lyric excerpts by Yasiin Bey read: Shine Your Light for the World To See, I want Black People to free... That's all that matters to me..."

Portrait detail of three of the young men of the Exonerated Five, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Antron McCray, painted in the red, black, yellow and green of fireflies.

Portrait of man with brown skin in a dancing pose, wearing a red, black and yellow dashiki, surrounded by a green glow against a yellow background.

Young girl with brown skin and glasses, wearing bangs and a headband around her hair, surrounded by green glow against a black background. Yellow and red calligraphy reads: Clavo con clavo, soga con sal, to' lo corrupto van a temblar, cuando me suba el castigado, flor de justicia del trobador.

Young girl with long pony tails, painted in the colors of a fire fly, sitting with exposed heart and a human heart grenade in her hands.

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The Puerto Rican archipelago is presented within a green nebula. From the main island emerges the face of former Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera,

CV Yasmin Hernandez

Read the Rematriating Boriken Manifesto

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