My Country Needs Me Edwin Arocho (Printer) almost making our way through

almost making our way through the transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age

She has been interested in the electronic space between images and the edges and margins of transmission that resolve themselves into meaning as they move toward the center of our vision

Texas extends north and south

A red bolt in the center

I delight in the notion that others who view my work create their own stories

My Country Needs Me Edwin Arocho (Printer) almost making our way throughMy Country Needs Me, 1996 Offset Lithograph Edition of 80 21 1 4 x 30 in Collaborative Printer: Bob Franklin At the top of this print, a line of text reads: My country needs me, and if I were not here, I would have to be invented. The words come from Hortense Spillers' landmark essay "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," a foundational text in African American feminist literary criticism on the origins and abuse of racial and gender based language. Below them,