The AfriCulture Collective.
Featuring the Art & works of
Rafiki Morris
Rafiki is best known for his innovations in three dimensional murals and combining traditional mural painting techniques with graffiti writing. His works on canvas are stylistically surreal but his content unapologetically depicts African life and culture.
Time Longer Than Rope
Time Longer Than Rope is a mural that begins in one country and continues in another. It tells the never ending story of the African presence inside and outside of Africa.
Each mural visually represents the relationship of African people to Indigenous populations, migrant communities and the settler populations that Afro-descendants encountered in our sojourn around the globe and in Africa. All murals will be complete with scenes that have a rope running through them, to symbolize the history, culture and distinct yet interlinked personality of African people in each location they populate. The murals are further designed such that the rope that enters one end of a mural exits on the other end, and is picked up again in the next country’s mural, continuing our collective story. Each specific mural is a scene in a larger narrative with global intent and Pan-African implications.
Time Longer than Rope sends a universal message that Africans are everywhere and have made an enormous contribution to the development of humanity and society. In each country (site) the narrative will be informed by local, regional, national and international African culture, interests and aspirations.
Introducing The Africulture Collective
The AfriCulture Art Collective is launching our website in collaboration with our Organizing Artist Rafiki Morris in support of an International Mural Project called, “Time Longer Than Rope.” This project is being launched to implement the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) declaration of the Second International Decade of People of African Descent (IDPAD).
The Time Longer Than Rope project was conceived and developed during the first IPAD in 2015,at Studio 66 Art Support Community of Trinidad and Tobago. It is now being implemented by a coalition of Artists, Civil Society Organizations, Governments and individuals in support of The AfriCulture Art Brigade, who will produce the murals.
Help finance Time Longer Than Rope by purchasing this marvelous set of paintings by Rafiki Morris’ entitled “No Evil”. pictured below. The AfriCulture Collective is donating all of the profits from the sale of these prints to the Time Longer Than Rope Mural Project.
The sale of 200 sets will finance a Time Longer Than Rope Mural in one location
The AfriCulture Art Brigade is a team of artists (painters/muralists) from participating countries who gather in each site, working with local, national and emerging artists to generate a mural design and produce it at that location. The Brigade consists of Artists sponsored by their home Country who will spend 4 to 6 weeks in each target /country to complete a project. All artists (local and international) will be compensated for their time, expression, and commitment to the project with a modest stipend for their participation. Additionally, historical and cultural research, as well as a literary narrative will be developed by artists, academicians, historians and cultural workers in each target destination.
