Umar of Segou 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches I have discovered through trial

I have discovered through trial and error the use of texture

Moving to the bottom of the composition

They speak about absence and presence

Bouton grew up in Paris

Art for me is an instrument of communication—with myself and with others

Umar of Segou 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches I have discovered through trialFrom the Artist To see is to know. But how can we know the unseenthe histories, the stories, or the names of a people that were undocumented or erased? I asked myself that question late one evening as I looked at the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama. The view from my studio faces the ruins of a dock that was, at one time, the first encounter with Tierra Firme for many weary, shackled, and enslaved