Atlas

Atlas is a questioning and an interrogation of the placement of the African in a foreign Western world. It contemplates the role of the African in a foreign world with foreign fundamentals. This was a collaborative effort with the RISD graphic design cohort of 2024 where we were introduced to a new world, and new expectations.

The publication uses direct experiences as well as the archive to visualize the condition of a Swahili person in a new world, and what is expected of them upon finishing the journey. Questions of placement, intention, abandoning of rituals of the metaphysical, and the sacrifices of those who leave make and what it means in the long term to lose them.