Refiguring Tate: Exuberance in a silent way

"First time I saw Nettrice Gaskins’ portrait of Greg Tate, whose image I have committed to my memory drive as a result of his visual hyper ubiquity following his untimely death, I did a double take. Wait a minute, is this? No, it isn’t. Did Virgil Abloh commission a Louis Vuitton remix of Tate in portraiture rendered in vida futura before they both died days apart?"