Week 3: Inspiration - James Pate

The artist that I chose for this weeks inspiration is James Pate. His series KKK "Kin Killin' Kin" relates so much to my own series. His work focuses on the aftermath of what slavery, economic depressions, and other factors have done to our youth. The end result is that we become just like the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) partaking in the violence and terrorizing of our own people. We end up doing the work for them. It is interesting to see that James also uses charcoal and pastels to create his work. I myself find great influence in this work, it is inspiring. My favorite has to be the last where the young man turns from the way of crime to who he is supposed to be. So since he is displaying the aftermath of now it further encourages me to explore how did this happen.