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Reclining Mermaid by Elliot and Erick Jimenez
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This public art piece hangs over the historic Moore building in Miami's Design District and is currently on view throughout 2024. The 100 foot billboard was printed on mesh and has thousands of varying sequins sewed into the mermaid's tail to reflect against the light. Lying in a reclined pose, a gesture often referenced in Western art, the figure becomes recontextualized as a symbol of cultural hybridity, where the European and African collide — mirroring the dualities of perspectives in which we exist as part of the diaspora. Representing the migratory stories over water that have existed from Cuba's early colonization and now within Miami's many immigrant communities.

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