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is, like much of Lauren Halsey’s work, a love letter to the neighborhood of South Central in Los Angeles,, , and , among other seminal Black publications; computer-generated assets from the 3-D software suite Cinema 4D; and photographs of family and friends “posing, partying, pondering, walking, riding a pony, sitting on the porch, etc.” Some, Halsey wrote, are “pre smartphone era”: “i’d take cousins’ digital cameras they’d take w/them to the club/events/sunday funday and dump the photos on my laptop.”

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