Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches textured and intricately colored backgrounds

textured and intricately colored backgrounds

Both my ethnic and cultural backgrounds serve as a root source of my work

This "shield" series is the exploration of the figure/figures in water

We live only to the extent that we accept responsibility for our individual choices

drawing material(s) on paper or fresco on damp plaster walls

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches textured and intricately colored backgroundsFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The