Ile of Ile Ife Jonkonu Festival was inspired by a group

was inspired by a group of paintings that utilized images of diamonds and eyes (in many forms) representing multiculturalism

The language is clear and universal

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I still can’t help but feel unwelcome during difficult times in our country

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

Ile of Ile Ife Jonkonu Festival was inspired by a groupFrom 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