The first step with any painting is to begin with an idea. It is much easier for me to concentrate in the mode of a series. In this case, it is a part of my Plastic Space abstract Maruvian Mask series. It focuses on the positive masks from around the world. I choose to call
By: Marcella Hayes Muhammad / Artist Oh, my! I love that wonderful original but the price doesn’t fit my beer budget. I just have Champagne taste. So my next question is... do you have a print of that? And what is the big difference between the two beside the price? I will address the mechanically
By: Marcella Hayes Muhammad / Artist Hey Marcella, I recognize your work! It’s just like Picasso! I must have heard that too many times and still wince every time I hear it. To the untrained eye, I can see how one would not really notice the differences. Sort of the untrained eye looking at a
By: Marcella Hayes Muhammad / Artist The illustration on the left is one of the Original Diptych paintings from my Maruvian Mask series that began with the upper canvas as a small work project. The lower half is the continuation of that series that came a year later to complete the image. I think they
Three paintings on the front page of my website are part of a small work series influenced by masks from around the world. Since I have taken artistic license to abstract them into my Plastic Space abstract form, I have given them the surname of "Maruvian" to represent my business name and then give credit
Some define Afrofuturism as a literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism as the basic elements of Afrofuturism. My work builds a bridge not from just a point of view of blackness but across race, gender, the world and beyond. It is a culmination of
