It's All Love

Tiny hands shape crooked hearts in the air, each one a symbol learned from cousins, siblings, and neighborhood friends. Their smiles are soft but full, the kind that come from knowing you are seen, protected, and loved. For a moment, the world is simple. It belongs to them.
 
In It’s All Love, LaKeem reaches into the center of Black childhood, where affection is taught long before language, where joy is passed from one child to the next like a family heirloom. The gesture may be small, but the meaning is wide. It echoes the ways Black communities create their own tenderness, their own rituals of care, even when the outside world fails to offer the same.
 
Through the honesty of ink and line, LaKeem tells a story about love that feels both personal and collective. This piece honors the bonds that shape us early, the friendships that feel like family, and the unspoken truth that our first lessons in unity often come from the smallest hands.