Kanza of Kwango Robert Pruitt They give my artwork scale

They give my artwork scale

is the city as a container of joys

my experience in color lithography was very limited

I didn’t want to do that directly

A mask-like face looms large as a river flows into the deep beyond

Kanza of Kwango Robert Pruitt They give my artwork scaleFrom 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