Courtesy of Bekezela Mguni
Detail from “Uses of the Erotic In Honor of Audrey Lorde,” by Bekezela Mguni, featured in “202021: a new constellation.”
Courtesy of Shori Sims
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Pittsburgh-based fashion designer Tereneh Idia says she’s been thinking about constellations since visiting the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
“I’ve been obsessed with the idea of how constellations are made and how we identify constellations in space,” she said. “I saw that there are peoples of these countries that we now call America that saw the darkness in the sky as constellations, as well as the lights.”