Welcome to Hippo Artz Apothecary.
You have entered a repository of experimentation with color, texture, storytelling, and release, where emotion, dream, and defiance spill across canvas.
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I am Hippo Artz
I paint figures suspended in surreal landscapes—bodies reshaped by violence, survival, and reclamation. My artwork sits in the tension between oppression and defiance, inviting viewers to look longer than comfort allows.
“I am a pessimist if I am not careful.” — Octavia E. Butler
Working primarily in acrylic on stretched canvas and unfinished wood, every piece is layered with emotion, lived experience, and a shimmer of Black Girl Magic.
Apothecary Inventory
— Experience a Journey Through the Unmitigated Expressions of Black Womanhood
— Without darkness, how would we know the light? Eerie, surreal, close to the veil.
— Beauty, visibility, identity, representation, belonging.
— Tender reckonings, grief-work, remembrance.
Dedicated with love
Chunk- if love alone could have kept you here, you would have lived forever. I miss you.
This site and all the work within it, are dedicated to Harley
