limitless
Without end, limit or boundary is what it means to be limitless, but I believe it is more than that. To be limitless is to study your past and to observe and balance your present, in order to best design your future. To be limitless is to realize how far you have come in your journey, and to realize that you have not come this far alone. To look back at your family tree and meditate on the brute strength, power and perseverance of your ancestors. It is to realize that others who are not a part of your physical family, fought for you as though you were, risking their lives to change your future, though they would never meet you. To be limitless is to identify the singular point in your life that you are adamant on no longer letting control you, and choosing to break the cycle. To be limitless is to take off the mask you put on for others’ comfort. To be limitless is to work at killing an empire that has caused an immeasurable amount of suffering and pain upon the planet and its citizens. To be limitless is to feel the weight of everything that needs to be done, and to sway your hips to the rhythms and beats of the songs that call you. To make the daring decision in which you choose to not just exist, but to be...you, is what it means to be truly limitless.
What inspired the painting
Tammie Salter’s video on TikTok and Rapsody’s song - Crown inspired the thinking behind this painting. Highlighting how the themes of family, ancestry, intelligence and strength, help us to feel and be limitless.