El Dorado Robert "Bob" Franklin "You will have to trust

"You will have to trust me

I want to provoke thought or conjecture from the viewer

These processes organically unfold through external support systems

—Excerpted from Grand Forks Herald

I love my Japanese traditional arts

El Dorado Robert "Bob" Franklin "You will have to trustFrom 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