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#NewExhibition

AṢẸ: AFRO FREQUENCIES - an immersive, multimedia Afro-surrealist art experience featuring works by digital artist @vincefraser and spoken word artist @urucker - opens March 22, 2024 at @artechouse #NYC 📍439 W 15th Street

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🎥 reposted from @artechouse 🚨 ANNOUNCING #AseAfroFrequencies is coming next to #ARTECHOUSENYC. 👑✨

Inspired by ase, the Yoruba concept relating to our power to produce change, Ase: Afro Frequencies celebrates the Black experience through the perspectives of artist Vince Fraser and poet Ursula Rucker. Starting 3/22, tickets are available now through the link in our bio. #ARTECHOUSENYC #ARTECHOUSE

Tickets and Details: www.artechouse.com/program/ase-afro-frequencies-nyc/

Bold, beautiful, powerful; step into this vibrant Afrosurrealist exhibition, featuring the work of London-based Afro-surrealist digital artist Vince Fraser along with poetry and spoken word by ursula rucker.

The spirit of aṣẹ — a powerful affirmation and philosophical belief held by the Yoruba people of West Africa, meaning “so will it be” — reverberates throughout this vibrant and meditative exhibition. Everyone should experience this immersive story of resilience, cultural celebration, and the possibility of the future.

“This exhibit serves not only as art but as a call to action in many ways — to collaborate, to uplift one another, to learn and to progress.” — Essence

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ARTECHOUSE NYC

ARTECHOUSE is the nation’s first innovative art organization dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology. As a pioneer in the field of experiential art, it creates, produces and presents innovative technology driven exhibitions, expanding the possibilities of art and how we experience it.

Still working away on my “Black Boys Bloom Thorns First” Fanfic. I tend to write by hand and then type later, so I’ve written a lot more stuff....just need to transcribe it.

I’ve been getting some hits on the story over on A03 and FanFic.Net which is awesome. I know people are into the stories of T’Challa and Erik, but there seems to be a few out there who are interested in stories about N’Jobu. There’s so much to write about him, but I’m trying to keep the focus tight.

My goal I would say is to give my take on a complete picture of how Erik came to be the person we saw in the Black Panther movie. And the world prior to his birth is key. I am having fun writing about N’Jobu and Califia (even though we all know from the movie that the Stevens family as a whole ends tragically). 

I won’t be writing any fanfic about Erik during his foster care years. I’m not equipped to handle that weight, especially since I grew up with relatives who took in foster kids and witnessed that life firsthand. I believe there are some other fanfics on here that explore that time, but for me, I’m going to focus on Erik when he finds his father, and then pick up when he goes to MIT pre-Navy/Black Ops, and then go into the aftermath of his Wakanda takeover.

I wanted to share the poem/song that inspired the title of my series. Ursula Rucker’s “Brown Boy”. The lyrics are spot on Erik Stevens. It is the haunting refrain in the back of my mind as I write this series trilogy. Each chapter will more than likely have a quote from a song that gives a feel for what the chapter is about, but “Brown Boy” is the overall big picture mood.

Even in darkness, I always believe there is light and hope around the corner, and despite the fact that “Black Boys Bloom Thorns First” covers some heavy things that the Black Panther movie touched upon, I hope to bring some Black joy with my handling of this particular story.

Anyways, here’s Ursula Rucker, the inspiration for “Black Boys Bloom Thorns First”: