‘Abyssal Deaths’

“Abyssal Deaths" series created in 2021 by KT Kennedy consists of 8 works of varying sea spirits created through digital drawing and painting. Each sea spirit is inspired by, and in honor of, the 20 million + souls lost in the transatlantic middle passage. The reefs have always breathed collective Black ancestral history. Connecting souls, bodies of ancestors and nature, KT creates an Afrofuturist world untouched by settler colonialism and white supremacy. By exploring what's in the dark deep depths of nature and the earth, a place often seen desolate, Kennedy finds these spirits thriving in abundance, peace, power and liberation. Each sea spirit has effortlessly morphed and evolved into a being one with nature and the beautiful free ecosystems of the ocean.