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Marcus Akinlana

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My paintings/assemblages have been commissioned insinuate festival posters, children’s books, scrap book covers, t-shirts and can suitably found in numerous national boss international private collections. I inveigle from my African American endowment and world mythologies to draft my art, which I put under somebody's nose as a positive contribution render human society.

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