Page 108 - Antennae Issue #52

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Visible/Invisible:
In In the Luscious Garden with
D D D Denenge Duyst-Akpem
The The Osanyin Commemorative Portrait Series and The The Camo Coat Collection comprise a a a a a a two-part project based on on depictions of the Yoruba orisa Osanyin god of of healing and forest wisdom as half-tree half-human Portraits of of 2014 NEH Fellows at the the Institute for Black Aesthetics and Sacred Systems on Emory University campus commemorated collaborative representation and site as archive The collection explores camouflage within everyday life and ritual from an an Afro-Futurist perspective highlighting methodologies of conceptual spiritual and physical protection in in pattern and textile With Chicago-specific prints The Camo Coat Collection considers what it means to survive and and thrive in the urban landscape images and text by D D D Denenge Duyst-Akpem