Tina Martin's 'A Walk Into Glory'

The name Harriet Tubman inextricably linked to the Underground Railroad, the network of secret safe houses and safe routes that were used by enslaved Africans in the United States to escape to freedom in states without slavery or to Canada. The iconic image of Tubman is of her staring straight ahead, her piercing eyes looking directly at a hypothetical camera without the trace of a smile, frozen in time. However, other interpretation and depiction of this iconic figure exists and it on display at Reginald F Lewis museum and the horror(s) she endure leading her brethren to freedom, as I discovered in my recent visit. Her selfless act is on exhibit by one her great, great, great niece, Earnestine “Tina” Martin. Tina Martin, now Tina Martin Wyatt a Washington D.C native and artist was compelled to pay homage to her aunt in a painting on display at the museum. …show more content…
Mrs. Wyatt was inspired to homage to her aunt work as a nurse, spy, businessperson, and entrepreneur. With this tribute of her aunt lifetime work and the writing Mrs. Tubman, Earnestine, attempt to convey and captures the dedication to being a soldier of God, here brother’s keeper and healer. As an artist, she express in the painting making her aunt slightly larger and center in the painting with acrylic paint with warm colors of reds, orange, blue and greens. The colors subliminal implies her aunt Harriet, whom was actual small stature, larger or the focal point of the painting. While documenting the message of her with experience with small snapshot what she encounters in addition, endures on her road to freedom with others in tow. With the blending of color, it blurs from distress to jubilation to