I am often asked...

I am often asked....Sheila Crider is one of my teachers...she often invites takes suggests that I go... see here taste this or that. Recently we have gone together to see the latest exhibitions at The Hirshhorn The Sacler The National Museum of the Native American and The National Museum of American Art. We go look critic eat drink...repeat. This has been going on for at least twenty years. She and her work are also some of my inspirations. She lived and studied abroad France Italy Japan...and comes from "round the way" and later after meeting knowing arguing learning from and being challenged by... so have and do I. She has a new exhibit...go see it...buy something. Since I've met her my abstract forms have taken on more depth dimension and complexity and one can almost lay my entrance into the world of enameling at her feet. Color...uh...what a marvelous endless mind boggling pain. We are...21century vanguards....

exhibition: New Door Creative

https://www.facebook.com/NewDoorCreative/?pnref=story

@artwork by: Sheila Crider 2016

http://www.sheilacrider.com/

@photos of artwork by: Adjoa J. Burrowes 2016

Witnessing, 

Sonda 

Sankofa...

November  19, 2009
....sometime in the early morning...

"Sankofa is a word in the Akan language of Ghana that translates as "reach back and get it" (san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Asante Adinkra symbol represented either by a bird with its head turned backwards taking an egg off its back, or as a stylised heart shape. Sankofa is often associated with the proverb, “Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi," which translates as: "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten."^[1]

The Sankofa symbol appears frequently in traditional Akan art, and has also been adopted as an important symbol in an African-American and African Diaspora context to represent the need to reflect on the past to build a successful future. It is one of the most widely dispersed adinkra symbols, " 

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