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Marks That Refuse Separation
"Tribal Hybrid" is an abstract composition where tribal markings converge, overlap, and merge—lines and symbols from Indigenous Caribbean and African traditions bleeding into one another, creating patterns that belong wholly to both and exclusively to neither. The piece refuses the colonial demand for separation, for neat categorization, for bloodlines that stay within prescribed boundaries.
The markings evoke Carib petroglyphs—spirals, geometric patterns, the angular representations of cemíes and cosmic forces carved into Caribbean cave walls. Simultaneously, they echo African tribal marks—the adinkra symbols of the Akan, the nsibidi script of Nigeria, the scarification patterns that marked identity, lineage, and spiritual protection across West and Central African cultures. But rather than presenting these traditions side by side in careful separation, "Tribal Hybrid" allows them to intermingle, to create new geometries where Indigenous spiral meets African symbol, where cave carving aesthetic merges with body marking tradition.
This abstraction mirrors the reality of Black Indigenous identity—not a clean division of "half this, half that," but a complex interweaving where influences become inseparable, where you cannot extract one heritage from the other without destroying the whole. The markings flow across the canvas like languages mixing into creole, like DNA strands intertwining, like the actual lived experience of carrying multiple ancestries in one body.
Colonial systems demanded legibility—they needed to look at a person and know exactly where to place them in the racial hierarchy. But "Tribal Hybrid" offers no such clarity. The marks are intentionally ambiguous, deliberately intertwined. Is that a Carib spiral or an African adinkra? Is that geometric pattern Indigenous or African? The answer is yes—both, always both, refusing to be parsed into separate, colonially acceptable categories. The abstraction becomes resistance: these marks will not separate themselves for your administrative convenience, will not organize themselves according to your racial classification system, will not make themselves legible to the colonial gaze that seeks to divide and diminish.
"Tribal Hybrid" in abstract form becomes the visual equivalent of Black Indigenous existence itself—complex, intertwined, irreducible, and ultimately illegible to systems designed to keep these identities apart.
Professional quality ultra high resolution and fade-resistant Giclee printing on natural white 210gsm matte fine art paper. Natural, renewable, and sustainable materials.
Printed with water based inks on recyclable paper, with optional timber frame from our FSC certified supplier with acrylic glass. Professional quality full colour fine art poster prints.
Size Guide
Centimeters
|
A4 |
A3 |
A2 |
A1 |
| Width |
21 |
29.7 |
42 |
59.4 |
| Height |
29.7 |
42 |
59.4 |
84.1 |
Printed with water based inks on recyclable paper, with optional timber frame from our FSC certified supplier. Professional quality full colour fine art poster prints.
Product Specification
Printed with water based inks on recyclable paper, with optional timber frame from our FSC certified supplier with acrylic glass. Professional quality full colour fine art poster prints.
