AFRO (is just a hair style): Notes on a Journey Through the African Diaspora, a three-projector installation by Thomas Allen Harris, creates a poetic exploration of people scattered around the world who are of African origin. Using material from the artist's three-month journey from Los Angeles to Brazil and West Africa, AFRO explores a circulating world of attraction - a world in which one looks for affinity within a real or imagined African community.

Each of the three projections is a window through which the viewer can see distinct scenes of African-influenced festivals taking place on three different continents. FESPACO, the first and largest Pan African film festival in the world, creates an international diasporic community every other year in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. In Salvador da Bahia, the annual Festival of Iemanja - the West African deity who is the symbolic mother of the sea - brings together Brazilians of all races and classes. Brazil is home to the largest population of people of African origin outside the continent of Africa. At The Beach, held each July 4th weekend at Zuma Beach in Malibu, California, brings together thousands of gays and lesbians from around the world for a weekend of festivities affirming black sexuality. AFRO (is just a hair style) places viewers in the position of the traveler, leading them on the epic journey of the artist's self-discovery and, perhaps, their own.