Americanah

Can nostalgia be tangible? Something you can feel, touch, and remember through collective memory shared through cultural visuals. Americanah provides a lens into an idealized America, a false America. One filled with sun-kissed Sundays, snow cones dripping down wrists, and flags floating in the summer heat. In this piece, we ask how the American dream manifests itself through visual language juxtaposed against a false reality.