DAY FOURTEEN (September 25, 2016) Today I finish my installation and hang my photographs for my exhibition "From Kemet to Cotton". Working on this project has been both emotional and uplifting. Being here in Afrika has brought up a lot for me around identity, culture, and healing. On this project I have utilized the diverse range of my creative talents from sewing to painting, and from digital editing to glue gun adhesion. The lack of frames and having to present work without being able to nail into the walls has forced me to stretch creatively. "From Kemet to Cotton" highlights the MAAFA (a Ki-Swahili word, meaning "Great Disaster", used to describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade) experience in art form and is an honoring for the Ancestors lost. This exhibition is designed to be an educational and healing experience for the people of Morocco, and the process of creating it has been a deeply healing and educational one for myself. (Ase)
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Photo by Rachel Pearcy of GOA
AuthorIdris Hassan Archives
October 2016
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