"The Mothering Blackness."

A bowed figure folds around a smaller form, their contours gathered into a close embrace. Red, yellow, green and turquoise strokes break across the dark shapes against a violet ground. The tall composition of The Mothering Blackness brings the heavily textured surface into focus.

Heavily textured mixed-media and oil painting on canvas.

1 of 1. No prints produced.

Size: 36 × 18 in

“She came home running

back to the mothering blackness

deep in the smothering blackness

white tears icicle gold plains of her face

She came home running

She came down creeping

here to the black arms waiting

now to the warm heart waiting

rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face

She came down creeping

She came home blameless

black yet as Hagar’s daughter

tall as was Sheba’s daughter

threats of northern winds die on the desert’s face

She came home blameless”

— “The Mothering Blackness,” a poem by Dr. Maya Angelou

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