Ibara of Nganya Jason Chen Large choppy blocks of blue

Large choppy blocks of blue appear above and below in the frame of the print

it's labor that is not included in the economic statistics

It may seem peculiar

Music is an essential participant in my palette and directs the interplay of images and color

Ibara of Nganya Jason Chen Large choppy blocks of blueFrom 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