Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 and the pursuit of a

and the pursuit of a better world

A butterfly rests on the face of young Cassius Clay

we might not have strawberries for shortcakes or avocados for tacos

deserves all the love it can get

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

Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 and the pursuit of aImperfect 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