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The Creation of Umbrella Strut

By Marcella Muhammad / Artist, Designer About four years ago, I had the idea of doing a painting with three lovely ladies in poses of joy with umbrellas. I had the idea in my mind all set but needed a model to make the particular poses I wanted for accuracy. I could just sketch the

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Adinkra: Symbols of Power and the Nature of Reality

By: Marcella Hayes Muhammad / Artist / Physicists have long sought to describe the universe in terms of equations. Now, Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr. explains how research on a class of geometric symbols known as Adinkras could lead to fresh insights into the theory of supersymmetry — and perhaps even the very nature of

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