# @project_backboard on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGjAvngSTm6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26939526-project-backboard-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6735ce2d60.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-02-26T19:02:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Project Backboard (@project_backboard) — https://gondola.cc/project_backboard

## Caption

"What I appreciate about being an artist and being a hooper are the ways in which they each attune you to your own body, how you can develop an intimacy and entire nonverbal communication with strangers. How you are constantly reminded that you do nothing alone... When You make art or play basketball you stop seeing problems and start seeing opportunities. And that is my hope with this work that these uncommon routes, these gestures become suggestions for play and opportunities to try something new."

- najjak

Najja Moon
Uncommon Routes, 2024
Legion Park, Miami, FL

Najja Moon is a Miami based artist and cultural practitioner, born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Her visual arts practice uses drawing, text and sound to explore the intersections of queer identity, the body and movement, black culture and familiar relations both personal and communal. A preacher’s kid and daughter of musicians raised on gospel music and HBCU’s, before she committed to being an artist full time, she was a basketball player who used to be a kid who wanted to be an artist. Her art practice has in some ways become the probing of these intersections.

https://najjamoon.com/info/

Uncommon Routes was created in partnership with Jimmy Butler’s BIGFACE Coffee, donut shop The Salty, non-profit Project Backboard, and JDS’ #playwithpurpose initiative.

Thank you miamiparks , the #deptof🎨🚧🏀 swishhdreams ljiggy resoe_27 pancho_mx1 , all the volunteers, and everyone who helped make this project possible.

Images by Juan Luis Matos/Preguntas Studio
juanluismatos.info

#najjamoon #bigface #thesaltydonut #miami #miamibasketball #miamiart #projectbackboard #basketballandcontemporaryart #🎨🚧🏀

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projectbackboard, basketballandcontemporaryart, miamibasketball, miamiart, deptof, playwithpurpose, thesaltydonut, najjamoon, bigface, miami

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