Iyabo of Wamba Serigraph and is an affirmation or

and is an affirmation or celebration of life

the phrase readily acquires rhetorical and physical meaning

like the spiral and the moon

a color offset lithograph in an edition of 100

which is the absence of life

Iyabo of Wamba Serigraph and is an affirmation orFrom 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