The work "Dantel" is from the Mata Semay series, is a new body of work by Tariku Shiferaw, which first developed during his Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2018. Mata Semay (Amharic for “night skies”) is a fully immersive installation composed of paintings, sculptures, sound, and video. This series addresses the concept of mark-making and erasure using mythology as a way to take up space. Because of its invisibility – mythology infiltrates people’s perceptions clandestinely and subtly, shaping minds and behavior through mass cultural phenomena. Mata Semay is an imagining of what the night sky could be if Black people’s contributions – both past and future – were considered part of the global narrative.