Insane soundwaves

Monochrome Comics Mural Art: Joey Green aka jebaldn 
Storytelling: Oana Maroti

Jebaldn presents on a barcelonian wall, a cyberpunk comics fragment entitled: Funk Rogers and the Planet Boom. I have seen the making off, as I was passing by and I can say that the artist´s work in progress is a very meticulous thing.

¨As the first pigment used by artists in prehistory and the first ink used by book printers, black ink played an important role in the development of art and literature.¨

Black on white is the look of formal documentation. This black and white comics mural looks like business graffiti with sound and characters showing up from the wall. We have been using black ink, in arts and literature since the 23rd century BC.

So, here´s a street art intervention, a mural art statement of how important black is in interculturality.

Recuring to racist ideations might be possible by simply not understanding that technically black and white are not colors. In painting and drawing, black and white are used to highlight volumes, in both figurative and abstract art.

It happened to assist a situation where emotional colors were presented to a very intelligent immigrant kid who had a similar mind-planning and perspectives in drawings as Joey Green. When black and white were presented as colors, and adults stupidly insisted that dark is negative, the kid got unsettled, really upset, and said in a low voice: Black and white are not colors, they are nuances.

It was a case of institutional racism that immigrant kids are facing for no reason. Often immigrant kids struggle with non-honorable concepts that affect their development.

They do fight back, in a low or insecure or sometimes desesperate voice, but the message is still not heard. Some start an entire artistic process to make themselves understood.

From the underground to the surface, with sound effects, in black-on-white art and writing, stop racism, it´s embarrassing and insane.