AphroChic Magazine: Issue No. 4
In this issue, we sit down with artist, Malik Roberts, who relates the experience of creating one of the few African American artworks to sit permanently in the Vatican collection. Fashion designer, Prajjé Oscar John-Baptiste introduces his latest collection — an ode to Haiti, and its goddesses. We head to South Carolina to experience the Gullah-inspired music of Ranky Tanky. And in New York, we watch a new world being born with photographer and journalist, Naeem Douglass, who takes us inside the city’s Black Lives Matter protests, and economist Janelle Jones, who reminds us in these times that we are the economy. We are thrilled to share our cover with chef and musician, Lazarus Lynch. Inside, we talk with him about his cookbook, Son of a Southern Chef and his new album, I’m Gay. From a house tour in Brooklyn to a travel piece in Tobago, this issue takes you all over the Diaspora. And we see how of the concept of Diaspora was first introduced in a look back at how Pan-Africanism led the way to how we think of international Blackness today. It is a showcase of our culture, our creativity, our resilience, and our diversity, our demands for the present and our hopes for the future. Welcome to our summer issue.
In this issue, we sit down with artist, Malik Roberts, who relates the experience of creating one of the few African American artworks to sit permanently in the Vatican collection. Fashion designer, Prajjé Oscar John-Baptiste introduces his latest collection — an ode to Haiti, and its goddesses. We head to South Carolina to experience the Gullah-inspired music of Ranky Tanky. And in New York, we watch a new world being born with photographer and journalist, Naeem Douglass, who takes us inside the city’s Black Lives Matter protests, and economist Janelle Jones, who reminds us in these times that we are the economy.
We are thrilled to share our cover with chef and musician, Lazarus Lynch. Inside, we talk with him about his cookbook, Son of a Southern Chef and his new album, I’m Gay.
From a house tour in Brooklyn to a travel piece in Tobago, this issue takes you all over the Diaspora. And we see how of the concept of Diaspora was first introduced in a look back at how Pan-Africanism led the way to how we think of international Blackness today. It is a showcase of our culture, our creativity, our resilience, and our diversity, our demands for the present and our hopes for the future. Welcome to our summer issue.
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Interior Design<br />
artist wants to enjoy the outdoors, but the<br />
weather is not cooperating.<br />
Stairs from the enclosed dining room lead<br />
down to the home’s final surprise: a sculpture<br />
garden. Perhaps the most fantastic part of this<br />
fantasyland, the garden features wide open<br />
spaces replete with sculpted tables, planters<br />
and even oversized flowers.<br />
A final figure stands on a raised platform<br />
as the center of attention, between two chairs.<br />
It’s an oasis built to transport visitors far away<br />
from the city to a place where Cheshire cats and<br />
Mad Hatters might not be an unexpected sight.<br />
It would be hard for someone walking by<br />
to guess at the wonders that sit waiting inside<br />
Paul Suepat’s house, and that’s probably by<br />
design.<br />
The home itself represents a meeting of<br />
contrasts, the mundane world outside of it, and<br />
the dream world inside. But as always, the point<br />
is likely not to note the difference, but to make<br />
a connection. Inside and outside, textured and<br />
smooth, normal and abnormal, art and design<br />
— Paul is open to everything and receives it all<br />
in the same way. “It’s all the same thing. It’s fun.<br />
I laugh, I smile every day I look at it. And that’s<br />
what I like about coming home.”<br />
Paul Suepat is the founder of 2AC Space<br />
(www.2acspace.com), a gallery located in<br />
Brooklyn, New York. AC<br />
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