Duet for Carmen & Dizzy (Left Panel) ARTISTS_Odili D. Odita Twilight En El Tropico

Twilight En El Tropico

Collaborating Printers: Leslie Friedman

In the darkness this apparition seemed unreal

Williams believed that abstraction offered him much greater creative and expressive freedom than figural representation

The souls of loved ones are an integral part of my dreams and visions

Duet for Carmen & Dizzy (Left Panel) ARTISTS_Odili D. Odita Twilight En El TropicoFrom the Artist Duet for Carmen & Dizzyis a [two part, or diptych] tribute homage to the late Carmen McRae and John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie. The image grows out of a series of images which have developed over a 20 year period and continues to be built upon. The left half [this print] refers to Dizzy Gillespie, horn player. The rectangular form and various lines represent "Dizzy" and the circle with spiraling lines represent the source and emanations