Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches This "shield" series is the

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

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

— Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

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

It may also be understood as the fulcrum from which we can transport or move forward that which is important to the betterment of humankind

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches This "shield" series is theFrom 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