Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 A butterfly rests on the

A butterfly rests on the face of young Cassius Clay

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6″ × 18

Portrait of young Muhammad Ali with a butterfly resting on his face and a poem inscribed “stop playing it so safe”

we might not have strawberries for shortcakes or avocados for tacos

Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 A butterfly rests on theImperfect Father is a 48 60 inch acrylic painting by Nashville artist Shabazz Larkin. Its a big, unapologetic portrait about fatherhood the messy, imperfect, human kind. The kind where love and failure sit in the same chair. Larkin distorts the figure slightly, pushing the image away from polite portraiture and toward something more honest: the emotional architecture of being a father, of trying, of holding a family together even when you know youre