"What a Selfish Delusion"

Written by Nikkino Wesson. Illustrations by KBH.ART.

"Clean Cemented Sidewalks" 8x8 Oil on Canvas (2025)

What does it mean to feel a mothers unconditional love
    To experience a fathers warm embrace
    To watch leaves roll down clean cemented sidewalks
 
           Power washed
 
                  &
                        Cream 

What does it mean to look up at the sky
 
    Thick with a white shield of safety
    Lies that scream hope is beyond
    When distant communities are
 
          Poverish
                  Suffering
                           Bleeding

"White Shield" 8x8 Oil on Canvas (2025)

"Soup" 8x8 Oil on Canvas (2025)

What does it mean to gather ingredients for a pot of soup
 
      Not canned for 6.99
      Picking from stalks of celery
 
               rosemary
                     thyme
                     &
      two bay leaves
 
      Throw some creole in the blend - just to add a kick
      Shred the chicken to make it stretch
      Some stock and heavy cream to make it a little thick
 

What does it mean to chuckle with friends about the experiences of delusion
 
        Delusion - it is a delusion to believe this illusion is just
               For what is just without Justice
               We were not meant to be
 
               Judge
                     nor
                         Jury

"Chuckle with Friends" 8x8 Oil on Canvas (2025)

A child
         no
                home
Bellies filled
                with
                      hunger
Streets paved over
        blood
                &
                      bones
Communities moving like shadows in the night
        Forgotten
 
                in
 
                 Disarray
 
I had said, “the revolution starts tomorrow.”
The revolution is in the mind
The revolution started 1000s of years ago
        Our time
 
                  is
                       now
For what
 
Are you happy
With your celery
Paved streets
White shield

-Nikkino Wesson

"Unbecoming"

Written by Nikkino Wesson. Illustrations by KBH.ART.

"Unbecoming" 24x20 Oil on Canvas (2025)

Blocked in.
 
Block into an assumed way of being - accepted
 
Carefully only showing the world half of you, while the other half sits top shelf, waiting to be
released
 
Constructed - to think that we are meant to only check boxes ascribed to us by man
 
We have been blocked in
 
Blocked into preconceived notions of social constructs, begging for release
 
And so we receive
 
By touch of intimacy
We receive
By the placement of a word
We receive
By a chance encounter
We receive
 
Refusing to be shelved any longer
The shelf breaks and a ripple occurs
This is me
To those unseen before - they call it unbecoming
 
Unbecoming of the person they once knew
Unbecoming of what they deem as acceptable
Unbecoming an intentional word as the very essence of becoming, is shedding and unveiling a new
version of yourself

-Nikkino Wesson