Black Effect: Descent View Render

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A PNG digital illustration of the "descent view" from a project titled "Black Effect" by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with this view depicting the exterior of the west side of the Museum. The rendering depicts a sunken walkway descending towards the west facing side of the museum. The wide, walled walkway extends the full width of the rendering’s foreground and narrows to convey perspective as it extends towards the museum, dividing a water feature in front of the museum. The walkway turns sharply to the right, and then left, at the water feature. Along the walls lining the walkway are renderings of enslaved figures in confined, horizontal spaces with barred windows and ladders resembling the hold of a slave ship. Crouched or crawling figures are depicted amongst horizontal rows of prone figures tightly packed together.

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