In Episode 2 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette visits a museum with no walls: the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Museum in Joshua Tree, CA. Purifoy tells us what led him to the desert and Cauleen Smith creates a Black, feminist utopia in the spaces he built. Even our dreams have rhythm, let’s go together, moving through time + space — funkin to the beat of “One.”

Interview of Noah Purifoy provided by the Center for Oral History Research, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

Featured: Evangeline Montgomery, Bí Oke, Noah Purifoy, Cauleen Smith, Babette Thomas, and Jay Thomas.

Cover art: Evangeline's Garden by Jeanna Penn @jinamae