About

My work is a creation of a parallel utopic, afro-futuristic community, told through a series of fineliner pen drawings. As a form of escapism, this utopic world is envisioned through the imaginings of figures in pensive states. Culturally significant hairstyles and clothing function as symbolic conduits; objects through which I begin to build this “afrotopia” as both a physical place and as an outer projection of an inner consciousness. - MICHAEL BOOKER, 2019

Michael Booker is a mixed media artist originally from Jackson, Mississippi who currently resides in Maryland. He received his BFA in …