And now a break from our regularly scheduled programming...

I had the privilege of visiting Lakwena Maciver‘s studio last month. I wrote about our conversation for The Coastal Post. 

LTB: Where do you find the phrases that go into the work?

LM: For this painting, there’s a song by Gil Scott-Heron that says, ‘Black people / will be in the street looking for a brighter day. / The revolution will not be televised.’

The sort of discontent with the status quo and push for the newly imagined is a huge part of Afrofuturism. Lakwena herself likes to blend Afrofuturism with a messianic philosophy: waiting for, longing for, imagining a promised and better future.