Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches middle and background—know of the

middle and background—know of the inevitable

textured and intricately colored backgrounds

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

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

Both my ethnic and cultural backgrounds serve as a root source of my work

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches middle and background—know of theFrom 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