In our collected passions we drive this wild vehicle into the souls of our ancestors desperate for the roots of stories, paintings, and of the hands reaching up from the oceans to push back the landscape a little more every day/

What a way to say hello to skies and kisses/ what a way to begin to live again in the spirit of art / movement and history / moving through the traffic of memory…
Making a right turn on red for it / the black of it the love of it for the jazz and blues of it.

In our collected passions we live for the enrichment of each others garden / we dream of raising energy levels and flipping the soil of our language between us – negative into positive –failure into success – death into rebirth. Life into art! So welcome to our Absolutely Black Artists in Oakland web garden…

- Jerry Thompson