You can thank Wangechi Mutu’s She’s Egungun Again for your Coachella outfit inspo, which happens to be exactly the opposite of the point of the painting.

So what is Egungun? It sounds like some high tech gadget that only makes sense to computer scientists but it’s actually a term used in Yoruba culture (Southwestern and North Central Nigeria/Southern and Central Benin) when discussing masquerades and festivals for ancestor worship. The costume of an Egun is always masked and when worn is said to possess the wearer with the spirit of the ancestor that the costume represents. Mutu uses this as the basis of this piece but puts a social commentary spin on it. It’s worth noting that this is a sacred ritual so you should really stop thinking about how this beautiful work of art applies to your festival season attire.

Mutu creates images that bring Black women to the forefront of our minds after being disregarded for basically all of history (about friggin’ time). She explains that she’s “resolving the issues of [their] invisibility” by going to a magazine rack and ransacking it for bits and pieces of things that represent her *self portrait* (not a small job as images of Black women are so few and far between). From far away this piece just looks like a psychedelic painting of woman on a stilt/cane type object. But if you zoom right on in there, you’ll see that parts of the woman, like the butt and the nose, are made up of cutouts of women’s boobs and legs from porno mags. “Butt why?” you ask. Well, because when Mutu was ransacking that magazine rack, the only depictions of Black women were, you guessed it, in the pornography section. C’mon society, get it together.