Kohistān afro diaspora portrait painting A lone gaucho stands with

A lone gaucho stands with his back to the world in the tall golden grass of the Argentine Pampas

A single braid falls against bold geometric weaving

Feels like a hug

blue mountains anchoring a city that has carried two civilizations at once for five hundred years

Kohistān afro diaspora portrait painting A lone gaucho stands withAn Afghan woman stands with her back to the viewer in a richly embroidered traditional dress intricately paneled fabric in dusty blue, rust, and earth tones cascading to the ground, her dark wavy hair loose against the textile detail, the whole figure set against a hazy, layered mountain horizon that stretches on without end.