{"id":5661,"date":"2026-01-02T05:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:16:59","slug":"2026-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"2026 HAS ARRIVED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2026 is here\u2014and so is <em>Africans Abroad, Volume 2<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rooted in the principles of the <em>African Jetset<\/em> series, this body of work retrofits the future, staging images of Africans luxuriating in the wealth, health, and imaginative freedom of a continent allowed to flourish on its own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It gestures toward an alternate universe\u2014one where the devastations of colonialism and extractivism have been met, metabolised, and re-encoded into something richer, stranger, and newly possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Universe B: glamour as inheritance, adventure as birthright.<br>Ash\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_01.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_01-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_01-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_01-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_01-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_02.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_02-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_02-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_02-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_02-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_03.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_03-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_03-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_03-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_03-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_04.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_04-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_04-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_04-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_04-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_05.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_05.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_05-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_05-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_05-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_05-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_06.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_06.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_06-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_06-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_06-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_06-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_07.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_07.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_07-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_07-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_07-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_07-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_08.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_08.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_08-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_08-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_08-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_08-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_09.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_09.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_09-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_09-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_09-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_09-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_10.png 950w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_10-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_10-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_10-758x600.png 758w, https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AA_10-600x475.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 is here\u2014and so is Africans Abroad, Volume 2. Rooted in the principles of the African Jetset series, this body of work retrofits the future, staging images of Africans luxuriating in the wealth, health, and imaginative freedom of a continent allowed to flourish on its own terms. It gestures toward an alternate universe\u2014one where the devastations of colonialism and extractivism have been met, metabolised, and re-encoded into something richer, stranger, and newly possible. A Universe B: glamour as inheritance, adventure as birthright.Ash\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,40,81],"tags":[351,404,405],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-speculations","category-visual","tag-african-jetset","tag-africans-abroad","tag-retrofuturism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}