In Moonlight Black Boys Blue

Medium: Mixed Media (Ink, Assorted Buttons, Pigment Powder, Watercolor, and Aerosol Paint)
Dimensions: 12” x 16”
Year: 2025 

Photography by David Gary Llyod

This work considers Black boys as sites of becoming rather than symbols of threat. It asks what it means to protect softness without denying strength, to dream of wings while standing firmly on the ground. In Moonlight Black Boys Blue is a meditation on tenderness as resistance—and on the quiet, radical act of imagining Black boyhood in flight. 

The palette surface—stained, weathered, and luminous—functions like a night sky that remembers. Moonlight does not erase danger; it reveals paths.