Ile of Ile Ife Jonkonu Festival accessed 7-29-2021

accessed 7-29-2021

The language is clear and universal

10 x 6 1/3 inches

I am constantly searching for meaning in my life as I create

An abandoned mother that is in the middle ground stands still waiting for food and attention

Ile of Ile Ife Jonkonu Festival accessed 7-29-2021From 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