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"I place my ancestors into new visual and spiritual contexts — ones that center dignity, protection, and possibility. Sequins and beads function as both adornment and armor, transforming each portrait into a site of reverence, where absence becomes space for reimagining." — Demetri Broxton Demetri Broxton is a mixed media artist whose work explores ancestral memory, cultural identity, and spiritual resistance within the African Diaspora. Of Louisiana Creole and Filipino heritage, his practice draws from African diasporic spirituality, New Orleans culture, and global Black histories. Ancestral Echoes is on view now at Museum of the African Diaspora. Working with family photographs whose subjects are often unnamed, Broxton traces his family's movement across the American South and westward to Oakland — reflecting on the search for opportunity and the rupture of intergenerational knowledge that migration can produce. Using screen-printed textiles, beadwork, cowrie shells, and sequins rooted in African diasporic spiritual traditions, he reimagines his ancestors as sacred figures — releasing them from their historical conditions and situating them within new visual and spiritual frameworks. Learn more at the link in bio. #DemetriBroxton #BlackArt #ContemporaryArt #MoAD #AncestralEchoes #AfricanDiaspora

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