AFROCOSMOS

AFROCOSMOS

Here, everything begins in light
The light of day sliding over a face
the tremor of a candle at the edge of night
caressing faces and objects, recreating the warmth of a home.

In these draped interiors
walls breathe the gestures and silent presence of everyday life,
and the voices of its women.
Time seems suspended, as if Vermeer had cast his gaze
upon an African world alive with color
where in the hush of every scene, a promise ignites.

But here, the women are no one’s muses:
they are worlds entire, bearing the cosmos within them.

Alone or together
their sculpted hairstyles, architectures of identity
are true galaxies, living crowns where memory and future are woven.
Each braid a line of flight, a secret map.

Dressed in a language of streetwear, tradition, and science fiction,
they play cards, sip a drink, laugh, read, braid each other’s hair,
nurse, converse, dream elsewhere.

One studies a map of the world,
where Africa, restored to her true scale, stands immense and central
able to cradle Europe, China, India, the United States, and beyond
Is no longer periphery, but origin and horizon.

In their gaze, past and future meet
intimate cartographies, infinite presences
where in the soft glow of a lamp, faces open to imagination, a future already unfolding.

AFROCOSMOS tells of women, multiple, fluid, universal
who weave their own constellations and reject all confinements.
They do not merely inhabit the world: they reinvent it.