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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs.

Do you ever go to a museum or gallery and wonder how on earth an artist came up with that?

So I started playing with Shea Butter probably about 12 or 13 years ago.

This is Rashid Johnson. He's a rising star in contemporary art.

I was sitting in my bathroom listening to a show on National Public Radio.

It was the Tavis Smiley Show, which used to come on at 2 p.m.

So I was sitting in my bathroom, listening to the Tavis Smiley show, and putting on Shea Butter.

And I got a call from a friend, and he asked me what I was doing.

Sitting in the bathtub listening to Public Radio.

Putting on Shabutter.

And he said, oh, that sounds like a really interesting word.

Okay, that wouldn't be my reaction, but we're talking about how artists work.

It kind of led to me thinking about how complicated the material was its relationship to Africa

in an Africanness.

Because it's from West Africa, right? Shea butter.

It is. It's a West African material that comes from a nut.

It's often put in a lot of different products that we use today, even Jurgens and different

lotions.

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