![]() ![]() A few have gone so far as to create actual giant versions of their candies - Hershey’s has been making a 5 Pound Hershey Bar for quite a long time. You can buy something that looks like a Giant Tootsie Pop that holds a bunch of lollipops, or a giant box of Wonka Nerds. Part of a newer trend from the candy companies is to pre-package this for you. The sheer volume in itself is a luxury, something most normal people don’t do for themselves, but they’re happy to relish it from a loved one. This meant that it might a pretty jar filled with Atomic Fireballs or shoebox filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter Miniatures. In the same year, during the NBA’s Covid hiatus, he created Indigenous Basketball Australia to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people overcome some of the challenges they face in the existing Australian basketball system – so they might succeed at higher levels like Mills has.One of my favorite styles of gifts (especially when I had much more modest capital than now) was the gift of beloved common items to delightful excess. Mills has always been an advocate for social justice, and in 2020 launched Team Mills Foundation with the simple aim of helping people and communities. It’s our responsibility to empower our communities and show the world our beauty and strength through art.” “It’s also a global issue that Bipoc cultures are not represented in museums, and cultural institutions in the same level and respect as European cultures. Quiñonez said street art is important for “underserved communities who don’t have resources to visit galleries and museums”. “The street art definitely has meaning to it … there’s messaging behind it of being able to bring people together.” “Very quickly I’ve felt drawn to that,” Mills said. ![]() “The art, the street art, all that kind of stuff has helped me understand what the community of Brooklyn is all about,” he told Murals for the Movement, a public art initiative by Street Theory, where Quiñonez is creative director. ![]() The Boomers captain has spoken previously about being drawn to street art in the city when he made the move there in 2021 from the San Antonio Spurs. “And as you can see from the turnout today, and the diversity that there is, only a couple of blocks from our practice facility, it has been really heartwarming and welcoming to me and my wife and a place where we’ve felt welcomed with open arms.” “This is a very special place I’ve never been anywhere like this before,” he said at the event. Mills acknowledged how the multicultural communities in the city had made him feel at home in Brooklyn. The Indigenous Flow mural was officially unveiled over the weekend by Mills, Quiñonez and the Redhawk Native American Arts council at a block party in Sunset Park. It was our ancestors who had the courage to travel this planet through the vast ocean and plant seeds that would take root which later became this incredibly diverse human race that are all connected. “It’s also a symbol for connectivity and voyage. “The water represents the most precious thing nature has to offer all living things and an absolute necessity,” he said. Quiñonez said one of the most important elements of the mural is the large circular motion of water. “The two women represent strength, honour, and unity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have the same connection to nature, humanity and this planet as the Ramapo Munsee Lunaape Nation.” It was clear for everyone that representation of multiple cultures are important as well as the beauty of indigenous cultures. “ Team Mills and I collaborated with the Redhawk Native American Art Council and its leaders to discuss what’s important in the message we would like to convey. Mills and his team wanted the work – called Indigenous Flow – to “honour Australian Indigenous culture but also wanted to recognise and celebrate the Indigenous people of New York, and the communities currently living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York,” Quiñonez said. Indigenous Flow by Victor Quiñonez, located on Sunset Park in Brooklyn. ![]()
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