Antonio McAfee’s “Ordinary People” is a photo-installation-based homage to extraordinary black women of the past and present. Utilizing his inimitable photo-collage technique, McAfee combines fragments of images on acrylic medium to construct larger-than-life sized figures that hover in space like totemic apparitions. Like a DJ, McAfee re-contextualizes and re-mixes imagery culled from a process of extensive research into topics including W.E.B. DuBois’s 1935 essay “Black Reconstruction in America”,  the Atlanta washer women’s strike of 1881, and the women in his own life, namely, his mother and maternal grandmother. Through his own process of reconstruction, McAfee’s revisits the stories of individuals who were able to transcend their social and economic standing utilizing the tools available to them: namely, their labor, sexuality, creativity and outsized personalities. “Ordinary People” is McAfee’s shrine to the women who have impacted his life, women who, while often under-recognized during their lifetimes, still serve as extraordinary examples of excellence.