"Sojourner" Art Print

 
 
Art by D. Colin
 
Sizes & Prices:
13 x 19, $50
8.5 x 11, $25
 
Story behind the painting:
In 1851, it was illegal according to the Indiana state constitution for Black people to live there. Black folks weren't even allowed to visit the state. Steuben County didn't agree with this and despite the dangers, Sojourner Truth went there to speak. No one recorded her speech that day but when she got up to address the audience, a hostile group heckled her, accusing her of being a man and challenging her to show her breasts to the women. Instead she showed them to the whole audience and said her breasts "had suckled many a white babe."

Her tenacity was remarkable. This painting honors that story with the backdrop of the planet Mars, where the first wheeled robotic rover, named Sojourner, landed. I also centered a quote from Sojourner in my intention behind painting: "I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."