Dance in America/ Mardi Gras Still Life #1 Art for me is an

Art for me is an instrument of communication—with myself and with others

—and parallelism

Representational animal forms along with geometric patterns let the line blur between a representational and abstract work

The poetry and songs of Cuba provide literary and philosophical ideas

Dance in America/ Mardi Gras Still Life #1 Art for me is anFrom 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