NO MORE POT BELLY – TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS, ONE NEW ANANSE
I have always loved Ananse, the spider man (also spelled Anansi), the cunning folk character of legendary laziness and greed. These stories originate from the Akan people of Ghana and…
I have always loved Ananse, the spider man (also spelled Anansi), the cunning folk character of legendary laziness and greed. These stories originate from the Akan people of Ghana and…
I painted this on a geographic expedition to the jungle of Mentawai, an island off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. I was then working as one of the cameramen on…
This happened on the spur of the moment. I met this young woman at a friends’ home. She had just arrived in Accra from the North of Ghana and was…
This is one of my earliest large scale paintings, done at age nineteen. What drew me to this scene was the pair of gloves a construction worker left on the…
I was fascinated by this traditional wooden comb and its handle design. The arms of the figure in the handle are supported by two signs that look like a knot.…