Chokehold: Passage to Now
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Chokehold: Passage to Now fuses the suffocating history of the Middle Passage with the Strait of Hormuz’s modern stranglehold on global oil flows. Dark, churning waves of tar-black paint and scrapped metal evoke both enslaved ships and modern tanker routes. Flecks of gold pierce through the chaos, symbolizing resistance and the fight for resource sovereignty. The strait—a bottleneck of power—is now a metaphor for our era’s choke points: economic, racial, environmental. Who controls passage, controls the world?Try it!
