The Colour of Frederick Douglass

The colour has always been a big part of my work because I started life as an art student. What I want to do is to be able to bring to life Frederick Douglass for contemporary audience. In Statues never die, I revisited that because Alan Locke who was under the protagonist of looking for Langston in a way becomes our central character. He was a philosopher, he promoted the Harlem Renaissance, but also was someone who was very partial to all the new developments in African art when it first entered into modernist art. So some of his ideas need to be heard. One of the things which is missingI think in this debate is the question of where does the black artists fall