Lenworth McIntosh

I Came Home and There He Was, 2024

Lenworth McIntosh’s I Came Home and There He Was (2024) draws inspiration from “depictions of Jesus drawn [and painted directly] onto the walls of my Home by the same man who inspired me to become an artist, my granduncle.” Unlike the illustrations provided within colonial religious spaces, McIntosh’s granduncle portrayed the son of God with brown skin and a crown of thorns nestled into natural hair. “There was something deeply resonating in these depictions,” explains McIntosh. “They looked and felt like me. Opposite of the feeling I had in the Baptist Church.”

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