THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT + LEGENDARY

Not sure if you have happened to stroll by the Laundromat Project’s HQ in Bed-Stuy. Well, if you did, you may have noticed some new nifty work by the collective adorning the window.

We are so thrilled to share that this piece was created for the 2025 Create & Reflect – Window Commission.  This window vinyl is an iteration of our piece Sonics of the Ancestors from our Diaphanous series, reimagined specifically for the Bed-Stuy site. At its center is a futuristic portrait layered with sonic and ancestral references, symbolizing a portal where memory, sound, and speculation converge. To ground the piece in Brooklyn, we’ve overlaid an architectural land use map of Bed-Stuy, subtly altered to read “legendary” and “and us,” creating a playful, poetic intervention that bends time and reframes the future as community-centered. Select areas behind the map lines are transparent, allowing natural light to shine through and animate the work throughout the day. This piece acts as both a visual archive and a roadmap toward liberatory possibility.

LEGENDARY: AR OF SONICS OF THE ANCESTORS

For The Laundromat Project’s fundraising event, GATHER, The Mz Icar Collective unveiled an exclusive augmented reality experience tied to our window installation, Legendary, a site-specific remix of our original work Sonics of the Ancestors. This activation transforms the storefront into an interactive portal that expands the visual narrative through motion, sound, and storytelling. Rooted in Bed-Stuy and inspired by Black Quantum Futurism, the piece invites viewers to explore hidden layers of memory, movement, and collective imagination. Through their phones, and provided Headsets guests were able to activate animated visuals and audio elements that can be experienced during the event, creating a multi-sensory encounter with a future shaped by community, culture, and sound.

ABOUT DIAPHANOUS

Diaphanous: In it’s full iteration Diaphanous is a multi room experience. An immersive collection of art telling stories and guiding guests through a whimsical imaginative collection of experiences and material objects. This collection blends art, technology, and history to re-imagine and re-tell stories of the African Diaspora that have been excluded or marginalized due to racial and gender biases. Each offering embodies a theme of something or someone that could only exist now but reframed as if it did exist in a prior time, space, or dimension. we have proken d down this projects into a thematic catagories, Going Places, Ile Omi: House of Water, Soft Spaces and The Bottom End. This group of work is an extension of our Diaphanous series. You can learn more Diaphanous here.

THE REMIX

We made things. Beautiful, wearable, surprising things.

The Remix is a 55-piece collection of one-of-a-kind garments and bags created entirely from upcycled, reclaimed, and deadstock materials. Think towels turned into tote bags, old bedsheets reimagined as jackets, and discarded polo shirts stitched into shorts. We dusted off our sewing machines, raided closets and donation bins, and tapped into the magic of what already exists.

This project is about more than just clothes. It’s a practice in transformation, care, and creative rebellion. We designed style profiles for our collective members, thought deeply about how we want to be seen, and crafted pieces that reflect those wishes, all while reducing waste and rejecting the fast fashion cycle.

Each item holds layers of memory, texture, and intention. From Brooklyn belt factory webbing to vintage ‘80s charms, everything is made with love, storytelling, and a wink. Some pieces are adorned. Some are loud. Most are not for sale (except a few fanny packs), they’re offerings, examples, invitations.

The Remix is a remix of culture, craft, and care. It’s a celebration of process, adornment, and imagining alternatives that feel better, look better, and are better.

SOFT SPACES: HOME GOING

We debuted a collection of original art pieces called Soft Spaces: Home Going.

This body of work that sits in the in-between, between memory and migration, between here and back home, between feeling like a cultural insider and always being just a little outside of it. As a collective of misfit creatives that share migration, our relationship to home is layered. When we’re away, our accents, our foods, our gestures mark us as Caribbean, but when we return, we’re cousins to our culture, close, but not quite. This project is about holding onto home in the ways we can, through the signs, sounds, and everyday materials that root us. In this next phase, we’re pushing deeper into the textures of belonging. Hand-painted signs and braided hairstyles become wayfinders, markers of direction, of self-determination, of knowing where we’ve been even when the path isn’t clear. Fruits like mango, cocoa, banana, and coconut show up again and again, not just as symbols of sweetness, but as reminders of labor, trade, and the ways our histories are tied to land and movement. We’ll be working with burlap coffee sacks, layering on print, paint, and collage, letting the roughness of the material speak to migration’s frictions, what gets carried, what gets left behind. Our figures, caught in moments of play or rest, challenge the idea that movement always has to be about struggle. Sometimes, migration is joy. Sometimes, it’s just being still and knowing you belong.

If you are interested in purchasing work from this series, email us, sales@mzicar.com for the pricelist and availability.

AR ENHANCEMENT OF ORIGINAL WORKS

We are blending analog and digital processes and experimenting with AR activations of some of the original works.

GALLERY

ABOUT DIAPHANOUS

Diaphanous: In it’s full iteration Diaphanous is a multi room experience. An immersive collection of art telling stories and guiding guests through a whimsical imaginative collection of experiences and material objects. This collection blends art, technology, and history to re-imagine and re-tell stories of the African Diaspora that have been excluded or marginalized due to racial and gender biases. Each offering embodies a theme of something or someone that could only exist now but reframed as if it did exist in a prior time, space, or dimension. we have proken d down this projects into a thematic catagories, Going Places, Ile Omi: House of Water, Soft Spaces and The Bottom End. This group of work is an extension of our Diaphanous series. You can learn more Diaphanous here.

NOTES FROM DIAPHANOUS

Notes from Diaphanous is a collection of behind-the-scenes material culture and prototypes from the Diaphanous project. This exhibition, features a motion-responsive installation, AR canvases, and detailed plans for the project. For this iteration of the exhibition, we will be focusing on soft spaces, channeling Sankofa through archival images, imagined photographs, and textile art that emphasize protection and preservation. Underpinned by the philosophy of Sankofa as a means to imagine the future, this exhibition is a blend of old and new technologies and protective practices.