Umar of Segou 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches In printmaking my overriding interest

In printmaking my overriding interest is in the multiple- not as a way of producing an edition

Art for me is an instrument of communication—with myself and with others

which I appreciate having the opportunity to work with

I have discovered through trial and error the use of texture

Umar of Segou 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches In printmaking my overriding interestFrom 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