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  • Moodboarding still...I am digging this color combo (sky blue + terracota).⁠ .⁠ 📸@kokrobitey.institute
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  • I am officially obsessed with rammed earth houses. That is all, that is the caption. 🏚️😉⁠ ⁠ .⁠ 📸: @ramdesignghana⁠ ⁠
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  • Find a quiet corner. Practice peace and serenity. Let's not add to an already chaotic world... 🙏🏾 ⁠ .⁠ 📸@kokrobitey.institute (January 2020).
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  • One of my main concerns during this period, is how much weight I am going to gain...How are you eating healthy and staying fit during #stayhomesavelives? Photo: @anthropology
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  • Thinking about captivity. Not having mobility, freedom to come and go. Many of us feel a bit trapped albeit with all the privilege in the world. Nothing akin to what the ancestors went through. Yet with this minuscule inconvenience, has fresh air ever tasted so delicious? ⁠ .⁠ Am thinking of all we have taken for granted for weeks and months and years. Thinking back to my trip to Goree, Island in Senegal. Blueprint Africa was planning an exhibition with partners in Dakar for the Bienniale. Of course, this had to be cancelled because of #theRona. ⁠ .⁠ I fell in love with Senegal and had been waiting patiently for the 2 years to elapse so I could attend what is likely West Africa's largest art event. I had told myself in 2020, I was to be intentional and not just travel as a tourist but try to fit in some more brand activations here and there. Now...I just wish I could travel. ⁠ .⁠ Once this is over, no more procrastinating on travel destinations. Where are you headed once all this madness is over?⁠
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  • #Physicaldistancing: It's hard. I hate large crowds but have always loved intimate settings. Meeting people for the first time is exhilarating, nerve wrecking and life affirming at the same time. At least for me. My first impressions of @kokrobitey.institute founder Renee Neblett when we met was that she was enchanting, idealistic like me, devoted to her work on sustainable design and fashion, elegant. She spoke of her trips to Portugal, showed me videos of her adorable grandchildren, spoke about the African American perspective of the just ended Year of the Return and her new projects upcycling plastic water containers into chandeliers and liquor bottles into elegant vases. I left promising to help her identify a young graphic designer who would like to do a 1 month residency at her beautiful beach front packed earth property. Alas, #coronavirus had other plans and now welcoming strangers into our midst is seen as unconscionable. So as I rejoin the social media world after two months away, I come looking forward to the day we can get close offline again, meet new interesting people and get creatives the opportunities they need. ⁠ . . . . . . #howlongwillitlast #coronavirus #humancontact #hugsforeveryone #cyberhugs #stayhomesavelives #restezchezvous #accra #ghana #womenentrepreneurs #ghanaian #africandesign #community #womensupportingwomen #socialdistancing #physicaldistancing #blueprintafrica #femalebusiness #girlboss #creativebiz #chancemeeting #encounters #networking #networkisyournetworth #weneedhugs #onceuponatime
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