Kanza of Kwango Robert Pruitt Raised in a family of

Raised in a family of musicians

my experience in color lithography was very limited

and eventually AI-generated imagery over these archival familial faces creating what Chong describes as "material shamanism

All this happening at once: the viewer watching

Kanza of Kwango Robert Pruitt Raised in a family ofFrom 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