Not All Angels Are Seen

Vintage vinyl records, painted wood, and found materials converge around a portrait of Harry Belafonte, honoring his legacy as an artist and a voice for social change.

An altered record, its original title deliberately obscured, becomes a gesture of transformation—not to erase the past, but to learn from it and imagine a new history.

Inscribed within the assemblage is the artist’s original poetry:

“Not all angels are seen. They do not wait for wings. They fashion them from broken chains, from torn banners, from the very dust of the streets they march upon.”

“Their wings are made of echoes—of those who came before, of those who walk beside them, of those who will rise next.”

Medium: Original mixed-media assemblage incorporating altered vintage records, painted wood, and handwritten poetry
Dimensions: 17 × 32 × 2 inches