feature: ‘eclecticweirdo’ weekly illustration by nadya nickels – top hat and tattoos

Artist Nadya Nickels creates weekly illustrations for AFROPUNK showcasing the ‘Eclectic Weirdos’. This week’s piece is titled, ‘Top Hat and Tattoos’. Nickels tells us: “It’s a girl with a really cool outfit. My storytelling part of this painting are the details in her tattoos; Taino sign for sun, black power poster and poem called ” Y tu abuela donde esta?” Which means and your grandmother where is she. I learned this when I was a little girl and it’s talking about our roots as Hispanics.  Also on her top hat there are illustrations of news titles I’ve seen lately: from: the fake NAACP woman, South Carolina, to what’s happening in the Dominican Republic.”

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* Nadya Nickels’ website: http://eclecticwierdo.tumblr.com/