Donnie Denkins Moreland Jr (He/Him/His) is a Houston-based sexual health educator and multi-disciplinary artist. Donnie holds a Master’s Degree in Film Studies from National University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Prairie View A&M University.

Donnie’s work centers on cultural healing, black masculinities, and film criticism.

Donnie has contributed to Black Youth Project, Brain Mill Press, ColorBloc Magazine, Honey Fair Magazine, Honey Literary Magazine, RaceBaitr, Root Work Journal, A Gathering of the Tribes, Unmute Magazine, Emergent Literary, Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming) and Sage Group Publishing.

New Gods; Digital Collage

Butler; Digital Collage

i looked up one day and the sky was on fire;

Digital Collage

I.; Digital Collage

II.; Digital Collage

III.; Digital Collage

Play; Digital Collage

new horrors. same beasts; Digital Collage

that one henry rollins quote on heart break; Digital Collage

i’d do anything for you (in the dark); Digital Collage,

Exodus; Digital Collage

radical prescence; Digital Collage

In the Wake; Digital Collage

Indulge; Digital Collage

Summon; Digital Collage

Clay; Digital Collage

Tool; Digital Colllage

bearer of soil; Digital Colllage

Malcolm said everything already ; Digital Colllage

after Maxwell ; Digital Colllage

Vine (reclamation) ; Digital Colllage

find; Digital Colllage

find (2); Digital Colllage

find (3); Digital Colllage

find (4); Digital Colllage

find (5); Digital Colllage

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Digital Collage allows me access to a kind of storytelling that other mediums may restrict. Through digital art techniques, I can bring together so many images into one idea as though it were all intended to coexist.

And while my work traditionally centers a reimagining of cis-het Black masculine aesthetics, or visual narratives, I like to bring into investigation many different realities of Black existence.

Everything from sexuality and eroticism to indigenuity and religiosity is open for discussion. Black life is so rich in textures and histories, that as artists we are obligated to dive deep into these concepts to discover new languages and modalities of “Black”.

Digital collage is one of my many tools for upholding my role as an artist, and storyteller.