
Sisters

Happy National Women’s Day!
This is one of my most cherished sketches by Mr. Steptoe
Simone Leigh presents Brick House, a 16-foot-tall bronze bust of a Black woman with a torso that combines the forms of a skirt and a clay house. The sculpture’s head is crowned with an afro framed by cornrow braids, each ending in a cowrie shell. Brick House is the inaugural commission for the High Line Plinth, a new landmark destination for major public artworks in New York City. This is the first monumental sculpture in Leigh’s Anatomy of Architecture series, an ongoing body of work in which the artist combines architectural forms from regions as varied as West Africa and the Southern United States with the human body. The title comes from the term for a strong Black woman who stands with the strength, endurance, and integrity of a house made of bricks.
(taken from: https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/)
I saw this dude in Brazil and when I got back home, I had to do a double take when I saw him in Harlem…waiting for someone to take him home.
I wanted to take a picture SOLO but this man would not move!!
I’m at the market in Azogues, Ecuador