Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches I have always been drawn

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

and that the abstraction of space is perhaps more important than the subject matter

This "shield" series is the exploration of the figure/figures in water

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

" The verses that ground the work are unambiguous in their moral weight: depart from evil

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches I have always been drawnFrom 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