In this striking self-portrait, Malcolm embody’s a further realized version of himself – his gaze subtly confrontational, wearing a silver mask, adorned in West-African Wax Print and a braided loc-crown. Drawing from Afro-futuristic cosmology, African Diasporic and Black Dandy aesthetics and personal culture, the image explores themes of identity transcendence, diasporic memory, self-reclamation, and post-human possibility. “Untitled” blurs the boundary between the past and future, through the evolution and honor of self.

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'Open My Mouth' by Dexter Walker & Zion Movement acts as a prophetic and non-diegetic chant speaking on behalf of the portrait while foretelling its future. Click on the audio below the image to experience it.