Combating Negativity with Artist Brandon Stanciell This week,...

Combating Negativity with Artist Brandon Stanciell

This week, we’ll be sharing the stories of African-American community members in celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, which runs throughout February in the US.

“Some people have paintbrushes, and they paint. Some people have cameras, and they shoot photos. But for me, it’s flowers and hair,” says artist Brandon Stanciell (@themanwholovedflowers), whose series “The Man Who Loved Flowers” is a response to the rigid depictions of black men in the media. Taking inspiration from Shel Silverstein’s “The Thinker of Tender Thoughts,” which illustrates a man teased for the flowers growing out of his head and eventually cuts them off, Brandon’s florally endowed portraits offer an alternative response: “Don’t let anybody else tell you how to be you. Don’t let society cut off your flowers. Just keep them growing.”

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