During the pandemic quarantine, the J. Paul Getty Museum presented a challenge to its social media followers: to recreate and reimagine their favorite works of art using items available in their homes and post those recreations online for all to enjoy. Opera singer Peter Brathwaite was a stand-out contributor to this challenge, presenting a range of provocative and compelling works in the more than 70 postings he made to the Getty challenge.

This book presents fifty of Brathwaite's most intriguing and visually rich recreations. Introduced by the author and framed via three accessible essays by scholars or art history, visual culture, and diaspora studies, this eye-openning collection offers a timely look at the challenges and complexities of building identity within the context of the African Diaspora. The book offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes into Brathwaite's creative process of restaging, from setup and choice of props to outtakes.