This Sh*t Hard: Part III

Make a statement in any room with this framed poster printed on high-quality paper, with a partly glossy, partly matte finish. • 10 mil (0.25 mm) thick paper • Paper weight: 260 g/m² • .75” (1.9 cm) thick ayous wood frame • Acrylite front protector • Hanging hardware included • Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US • Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia How to attach hooks on 24″ × 36″ horizontal frames: Place each of the mounting hooks 1 inch (2.5 cm) from frame corners when hanging horizontally. COLLECTOR'S CURATORIAL STATEMENT This Sh*t Hard: Part III REIGNITED Series Kenneth “__yak” Vann, Jr. Mixed Media on 15 × 11 in Canvas Paper, 2026 $179.98 This Sht Hard: Part III* distills the core tension of the REIGNITED series into a work that is both immediate and deeply referential. At first glance, the piece confronts the viewer with raw energy—red acrylic splatter, black stenciled imagery, fragmented text, and a field of metallic gold that reads as both abrasion and elevation. But beneath that surface is a deliberate engagement with language, history, and authorship. Text fragments drawn from the Book of Leviticus—a scriptural framework concerned with purity, control, and separation—are physically torn, obscured, and recontextualized. What once functioned as institutional instruction is transformed into material: something handled, disrupted, and made to coexist with the realities of lived experience. This gesture places the work in dialogue with a lineage that extends through the Harlem Renaissance, where artists and thinkers reclaimed authority over identity, language, and representation. At the center, the handwritten phrase “THIS SH*T HARD” operates as both interruption and anchor. It collapses formal, institutional language into something direct, human, and undeniable. In the context of the work, the phrase is not casual—it is declarative. It speaks to the conditions of making, of navigating contradiction, of producing clarity within chaos. Materially, the piece reflects methodologies aligned with hip hop’s logic of sampling and remixing: fragments are layered, histories are recombined, and meaning is constructed through juxtaposition. The result is a surface that resists hierarchy—where sacred text, street language, and painterly gesture hold equal weight. As Part III within the REIGNITED series, this work represents a critical stage in the project’s evolution—where fragmentation becomes intentional structure, and raw expression begins to crystallize into a distinct visual language. It is both a continuation and a refinement of the series’ central inquiry: how meaning is authored under pressure. For collectors, This Sht Hard: Part III* offers more than visual impact—it represents an entry point into a larger body of work that is conceptually rigorous, culturally grounded, and positioned within an ongoing dialogue about language, power, and transformation. It is a work that holds its immediacy while continuing to reveal depth over time.