Nyabinghi Irving-Spelman museum trips: Cultural Exploration: Immerse yourself in diverse cultures through performances, exhibits, and community engagement. 2 points

 Early in the semester, we had to visit the museum four times to complete our audio narratives in ADW. I chose to work on the piece called 'Walk Among the Lilies.' To me, the monster in the top corner seems to represent malevolent forces such as racism, hunger, poverty, etc. There are two other versions of the artwork: one with another threatening figure, and one with what appears to be a sun instead of another figure. It is a biblical reference, Solomon 2:16: “My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.” I can see a stronger correlation between the alternate version with the sun, considering the phrase is intended to reference his presence and activity in a place of beauty, safety, and contentment, whereas the original artwork represents malevolent forces. I think the threatening figure is kind of overshadowing her ability to enjoy the lilies, basically representing letting any sort of  bad thing overshadow the good things in life. It reminds me of how they changed Babagore's name’s meaning from the father of deep thought, to the father of the grave, overshadowing the good that he was associated with. In terms of the entire exhibit, I did enjoy looking around a lot, and really liked looking at the video that was playing in that room off to the side, I was even talking to my roommate and she was telling me about how the sculpture she chose was made to have a bigger head because Nancy elizabeth prophet liked how African peoples heads were big with knowledge or something along those lines, which was really interesting to me, it seems like she really likes to pay attention to details in her artwork