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Time Travel: A Person Past & Present

By: Saint Twenty December 16, 2025

Saint MuseArt, Black Girl Magic, Books, Brooklyn Museum, Gabrielle Zevin, Time Travel, Tomorrow And Tomorrow And TomorrowLeave a Comment

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”

-Tomorrow, And Tomorrow And Tomorrow

Via: Brooklyn Museum

A TI DE By Oye Diran

By: Saint Twenty March 24, 2020December 3, 2020

Saint MuseA Ti De, A Ti De By Oye Diran, Africa, Brooklyn Museum, Byzantine Art, Kehinde Wiley, Oye Diran, Swinging Sixties, We Have ArrivedLeave a Comment

Yoruba for “we have arrived.” African photographer and creative director Oye Diran travels back in time to the 60s. Reminiscing on old family photos he cites “curated memories from his heritage as inspiration.” It reminds me of Kehinde Wiley, when I went to see his Byzantine exhibit at The Brooklyn Museum. We were there, but never represented. When you think of Africa in the 60s what fashion originally comes to mind?