Supernova Study No. 02

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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 mixed media work titled, “Supernova Study No. 02,” by Tanekeya Word. The relief print depicts the elaborate, Fulani-inspired, futuristic, protective hairstyle of a woman with her back to the viewer. Pictured from the neck up, the back of the woman's head features a large cutout that overlays an image of a gray, blue, and brown planet with a sliver of starry space at the top. Her hair is parted down the center of her scalp and woven into the center of the part is a double, five-pointed, star-shaped pattern. At the center of the star is a star-shaped cutout featuring a white, flashing star at the center. The woman’s looseends have been gathered up and styled into two large, round, spoked wheel shapes on either side of her head. The top and bottom spokes on each wheel feature two five-pointed stars twisted into the center of each spoke.

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