We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 9

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A digital illustration by Sekou Cooke as part of the collage studies from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The 2-D digital rendering is a black-and-white outline of public housing complexes Judge Langston C. McKinney Manor and Pioneer Houses in Syracuse, New York. The top view captures the complexes divided by South Townsend St., McKinney Manor on the left and Pioneer Homes on the right. Two McKinney Manor terrace’s cul-de-sac and the street edge of Pioneer Homes with their surrounding structures are outlined. On top of the public housing outline are flattened rectangles filled with repeatedly lines or a grid patterns. There are white horizontally and vertically laid rectangular structures and small, orange rectangular structures. When installed, the collage studies comprise a 3x3 grid of nine different illustrations, with this illustration placed in the bottom row, on the right. It appears to be a flattened version of NMAAHC 2023.63.6.

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