Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches drawing material(s) on paper or

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

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

and that the abstraction of space is perhaps more important than the subject matter

middle and background—know of the inevitable

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

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches drawing material(s) on paper orFrom 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