Lenworth McIntosh

That Small Room, 2024

That Small Room (2024) is a small painting of a domestic interior space that evokes a tangle of feelings for the artist. A book rests on a neatly made bed beneath a blue wall upon which McIntosh’s granduncle had lovingly rendered a portrait of Jesus. McIntosh elaborates that while making this work, he encountered “thoughts of how confused yet intrigued I felt in that small room. The Bible feels heavy on the bed, and, at the time, I didn’t know why—the book was not to be questioned. But I was enamored with how the wall drawing of Jesus felt so intuitive and more aligned with my spirit; I could see my community in this version.”

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