Artist Bio: Creator of the Black Women of Color Art & Nature series and Biofeelia Goddesses of Ether @Natureshaircoils, as well as, Vusa Fine Art Style, and Vusa Manga Animations. Vusa Fine Art style is a standard for depicting people of color and natural curly/coiled hair with all the qualities of beauty, cuteness, and elegance that begins with a coil. This style emphasizes the eyes, fullness of the lips, and depicts naturally curly/coiled hair, kinks to coils to curls, in a method of standardized animated realism. Canvas art and more, supporting environmental and social justice can be found here.
Arts supporting environmental and social justice:
A vision for a space for Black Women of Color to thrive, black culture reunited, the normalization of cultural diversity, and the optimization of biodiversity. Dana "Black Body Mother," is a lover of all the Arts, a first generation Californian from the Black African Diaspora. With no formal art training, she has practiced art techniques in various art classes within public education institutions, working with media from pastel paint on canvas to pottery, and engineering design. Heavily influenced by Black American Culture, modern civil rights distortions, Disney, Art History of the Africanas, and Japanese Anime dubs, with that, Black Body Mother unlocks the world of The Forest Nymphs: Forest is the sky, Soil is the Ocean. Mermays of the Forest Realm, inspired by cuttlefish and mycelium, soil science, tree canopy restoration, and folklore from the BIPOC community, and the cultures of Africana and Oceanic regions.
As a U.S. Navy veteran, qualified in Naval Nuclear Power Technologies, and Electrical Distribution, she served on-board an Aircraft Carrier stationed at Coronado, California, developing a unique combination of social, business and technical skills that are useful for advancing sustainability focused engineering. Certified in Permaculture Design, measurable earth activism is an intrinsic feature of her insight toward resilient infrastructures and social empowerment. A Structural Engineering Major at UC San Diego, establishing Green Corps as a pathway to Sustainable Socio-Ecological Optimization - SSEO, Holistic Sustainability for environmental and social justice.
In a "White is Right" global culture saturated with unconscious and environmental biases towards colorism, where "strength" is placed on Black Culture and Black Women as a means for dehumanization and dissociation of intuitive empathy toward Blackness, "I offer a safe space for all, all people of color, to embrace their Blackness, with respect for the black woman's body and all that has come forth. The fullness of the lips, the presence of any amount of melanin in the skin, the eyes, and the hair, and most importantly the presence of any form of a curl in the hair."
However, in mainstream entertainment, animation, and visual arts natural curly/coiled hair, kinks to coils to curls, is not depicted in a method of standardized animated realism. Which, by no means is an easy task given the technicalities of vector animations. However, from physics, we are aware that all colors and forms reside within the black body mass and are reflected outward in the form of heat, light, and color. Black Body Mother gives to all, Vusa Fine Art Style and Vusa Manga Animations, a standard for depicting people of color and natural curly hair with all the qualities of beauty, cuteness, and elegance that begins with a coil.
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