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Nicaraguan Artist Gives Historical Women Of Color The Glorious Crowns They Deserve. HUFFPOST Arts and Culture Interview

Nicaraguan Artist Gives Historical Women Of Color The Glorious Crowns They Deserve. HUFFPOST Arts and Culture Interview

Nicaraguan artist Ivette Cabrera’s delicate drawings, women real and imagined elaborate headdresses. The black, white and red crowns transcend fashion trends and sovereign traditions, resembling weightless, geometric diagrams ― part botanical, part architectural ― that allude to the endless, blossoming potential of its wearers. They are material and immaterial, regal and boundless. 

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