Sentences with phrase «slave trade journey»

Measuring nearly 14 feet wide, Bailey's collage painting Procession reimagines the slave trade journey with coded symbols, heavy - handed paint application, mixed - media relief sculptures, and African masks, but it lacks the metaphysical mojo of the best of Bailey's shamanism - infused works.

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Through the journey of the drum - from West Africa to America and then to England - we can trace the upheavals and horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.

For the High Line, Nazareth presents a grouping of cast cement watermelons — a conceptual artwork whose realization references both the corrupt labor policies involved in the construction of the iconic historical capital of Brasília, and the journey that watermelons — originally native to West Africa — made to the Americas alongside colonization and the slave trade.