Standing Above the Tide belongs to and is the cover art for “Black Hippies: An Imagined Archive,” an Afro-surrealist post-photography series that imagines a forgotten Black counterculture through speculative documentary images. The towering figure emerges from a sea of festivalgoers, neither giant nor ghost, but a symbolic witness. His elongated proportions transform the body into a monument to resilience, suggesting that identity can stretch beyond the limits imposed by history. The surrounding crowd, rendered with the warmth of vintage analog photography, grounds the impossible within the believable, creating the illusion of an authentic archival photograph from a timeline that never existed. Rather than rewriting history, the work asks viewers to consider the stories that were never fully documented and the communities whose presence has often been reduced to the margins of cultural memory.