If you have been following this or my other blog, you know that I was honored to have my poem selected as the winner of The Divine Comedy Poetry contest at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. The contest is one the events connected to the new exhibition, The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists.
Well, about a week before we left to make our way to the States (with a nice stopover in Paris, my first visit to the City of Lights!), I had the honor of meeting, Abdoulaye Konate whose work inspired my poem, Below as Above, at an opening that he at the Musee National Du Mali for an exhibition of his that would be traveling to Brazil.
Here are some images from that event:
And while we were in DC Melanie snuck a picture of Naomi and I standing next to Konate’s work: