You Tha Future

Artwork Details and Purchase Information
Original artwork is ink on 11 × 15 inch archival watercolor paper, framed and matted in a standard black frame
Giclée print is an 11 × 15 inch archival watercolor paper reproduction, framed and matted in a standard black frame, and part of a limited edition of 7
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You Tha Future
 
This illustration brings together a cluster of young faces pressed closely into the frame, each one carrying a different emotion curiosity joy surprise seriousness and vulnerability. Their expressions overlap and intersect, creating a dense visual chorus rather than a single focal point. The closeness feels intentional. There is no distance between them. Only presence.
 
The drawing speaks to possibility and responsibility at the same time. These children are not posed as symbols, but as individuals caught in a shared moment of becoming. Some faces look outward with confidence, others inward with hesitation, reflecting the many ways young people experience the world as they grow into it. The composition suggests that the future is collective shaped by community guidance protection and care rather than isolation.
 
Within Life in Black Ink, this work affirms Black youth as the center of forward movement and cultural continuity. It documents a truth often spoken but rarely visualized with care that the future already exists in the faces before us. The illustration stands as both declaration and reminder that what we nurture today determines what tomorrow becomes.