We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 5

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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., with McKinney Manor on the left and Pioneer Houses on the right. Two McKinney Manor terrace’s cul-de-sac and the street edge of Pioneer Houses with their surrounding structures are outlined. On top of the public housings outline are white horizontally and vertically laid rectangular prism structures and small, orange rectangular prism structures. When installed, the collage studies comprise a 3x3 grid of nine different illustrations, with this illustration placed in the second row, in the middle. It appears to be an angled version of NMAAHC 2023.63.10.

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