Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches textured and intricately colored backgrounds

textured and intricately colored backgrounds

Both my ethnic and cultural backgrounds serve as a root source of my work

universal" humanity are nonetheless rooted in his personal experience as an Afro-Cuban man and conveyed through the materiality of his works

We live only to the extent that we accept responsibility for our individual choices

I have always been drawn to and fascinated with Mexican-Indian designs that were a part of everyday life—from the functional to spiritual

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches textured and intricately colored backgroundsFrom 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