p.50 Studio Magazine Summer/Fall 2011. The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York. Pulane Mpotokwane, an architect from Botswana, wrote the poem above for the Harlem Studio Museum Magazine. The poem is of the same title as the museum’s recent acquisition by Robert Pruitt (seen below on the page). The two works evoke the irony of chains from slavery and chains we know as fashionable “bling”; both featured around one’s neck. 
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p.50 Studio Magazine Summer/Fall 2011. The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York.

Pulane Mpotokwane, an architect from Botswana, wrote the poem above for the Harlem Studio Museum Magazine. The poem is of the same title as the museum’s recent acquisition by Robert Pruitt (seen below on the page).

The two works evoke the irony of chains from slavery and chains we know as fashionable “bling”; both featured around one’s neck. 

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