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By DRPN Soul (Ottawa, Ontario)

Medina Lane at Durham Street
August 2021, Up Here 7

Presented by Black Lives Matter Sudbury

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Artist Statement

It’s beautiful to see young black kids come and see me doing this work and they can relate. That represents them a little bit. Because it’s such a critical time and people are thinking and talking about these issues, it connects with people more.

DRPN Soul

Kalkidan Assefa, aka “DRPN Soul,” is an Ethiopian-born multidisciplinary visual artist and artist-educator, based in the unceded Algonquin Anishnaabeg territory known as Ottawa. His work is focused on large-scale murals, collaborative community-based public art projects, mixed-media canvases, and illustration. His subject matter centers around Diasporic experiences, Black representation, visibility, cultural memory, and ancestral knowledge.