Mozeyik Art

**Artist Statement — Renard Burnett**

Art has been my lifelong conversation with time. For over 45 years, I have signed my ceramic work "Fox," a name that speaks to endurance, cunning, and quiet rebellion. My hands have shaped clay as both craft and testimony—functional forms that carry spirit, memory, and the rhythm of Black creativity in America.

Now, I extend that journey into digital space—melding artificial intelligence with fine art to create one-of-a-kind visual works that cannot be replicated, even by the machines that helped render them. This is not a departure from tradition but a continuation of it—fired in new kilns, rendered in new dimensions.

Whether through the earthy tactility of ceramics or the glowing abstraction of AI, my work is rooted in legacy and innovation. I am building bridges between the analog and the algorithmic, between ancestral memory and future vision.

As founder of Tantième, a platform merging art, architecture, and blockchain equity I approach every medium with the same ethic: make it matter, make it last, make it liberating.

I was given the name "The Black Panther of Art" by someone who saw what I often forget to claim for myself. That title reminds me that each piece is both an offering and a roar.

My art isn’t just about making things—it’s about making meaning. It’s about crafting permanence in a world that too often treats Black beauty as temporary. It’s about telling the truth, even when it takes code, clay, or courage to do it.