AphroChic Magazine: Issue No. 8
This issue is about revolution, remembrance, and rebirth. In Dubai, Chef Alexander Smalls is launching a first-of-its-kind food experience celebrating the culinary revolution taking place in Africa. In New York, as fashion week returned, House of Aama launched a collection remembering the elegance of 20th century Black resort towns. In Philadelphia, Chanae Richards is carving out space for rest, relaxation and meditation. And in Los Angeles, our cover star, Jennah Bell, is part of a renaissance of music that is indie, soulful and written from the heart. In this issue we take you to The Deacon hotel designed by Shannon Maldonado. And in our Wellness section, we let you in our own road to rebirth, through the journey with long-haul COVID that has defined our life this past year. In our Reference section we explore new thoughts on the African Diaspora. Looking beyond the history behind the word to explore the idea itself, opening new worlds of possibility as we begin working to understand what the African Diaspora actually is. And we take you inside the importance of the emerging Black art scene heralded by the Obama portraits which, now well into their national tour, made a memorable stop at the Brooklyn Museum.
This issue is about revolution, remembrance, and rebirth. In Dubai, Chef Alexander Smalls is launching a first-of-its-kind food experience celebrating the culinary revolution taking place in Africa. In New York, as fashion week returned, House of Aama launched a collection remembering the elegance of 20th century Black resort towns. In Philadelphia, Chanae Richards is carving out space for rest, relaxation and meditation. And in Los Angeles, our cover star, Jennah Bell, is part of a renaissance of music that is indie, soulful and written from the heart.
In this issue we take you to The Deacon hotel designed by Shannon Maldonado. And in our Wellness section, we let you in our own road to rebirth, through the journey with long-haul COVID that has defined our life this past year.
In our Reference section we explore new thoughts on the African Diaspora. Looking beyond the history behind the word to explore the idea itself, opening new worlds of possibility as we begin working to understand what the African Diaspora actually is. And we take you inside the importance of the emerging Black art scene heralded by the Obama portraits which, now well into their national tour, made a memorable stop at the Brooklyn Museum.
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WATCH LIST<br />
When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to demolish and rebuild the Third Avenue<br />
Bridge in Mount Vernon, NY, they still wanted to retain the history that the 121-year-old bridge had of<br />
connecting a community. And they wanted the bridge to also represent that community in a new way.<br />
So the MTA and the city of Mount Vernon commissioned artist Damien Davis to create a series of panels<br />
spanning the bridge to tell the visual story of Mount Vernon. The work, entitled Empirical Evidence, was<br />
created with painted water-jet cut aluminum, and it is meant to question "how cultures code and decode<br />
representations of Blackness and Black people." The panels invite interaction and discussion about what<br />
each symbol of Blackness means and how those definitions change over time. Davis said his inspiration<br />
was language itself and how it works as a bridge, and the symbols he created are also a language of their<br />
own. "For me, the question becomes how we take these larger complicated ideas, that can be hard to<br />
explain, break them down into simple shapes, and then allow new dynamic, complicated conversations<br />
to form around them. That is my hope for this project."<br />
Empirical Evidence<br />
by Damien Davis<br />
Mount Vernon 3rd Avenue Bridge<br />
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