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The Dolphin Club is an ode to the Dolphin Club and Motor Hotel, the only beachside refuge in Georgia that, in the 1960s, accommodated African Americans. In the violent shadows of legalized racial segregation and discrimination, The Dolphin Club was a beacon of safety and creativity; it was a sanctuary where legendary Black performers gathered and performed. The club lies on the same shore as The Wanderer, the last known slave ship to reach Georgia, so the site exists in the haunting duality of enslavement and Black creativity. By collapsing time, the work honors and memorializes the site as both a witness to atrocity and a haven of freedom through an Afrofuturist gesture of reclamation where the tide carries grief into creativity and sorrow into freedom.