Ancestral Echoes is an ongoing body of work exploring the fragile process of reconstructing ancestry in the presence of incomplete histories, oral memory, and archival images. Working with family photographs whose subjects are often unnamed or partially identified, Demetri Broxton engages a personal reckoning with the gaps created by loss, migration, and time. Using screen-printed textiles, beadwork, cowrie shells, sequins, and other materials connected to African diasporic spiritual and vernacular traditions, Broxton reimagines his ancestors as sacred figures. The exhibition examines the role of African Americans in cultivating the South's foundational cash crops while honoring cultural knowledge and resilience passed down through generations of Black life in the Americas.
