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.
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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.