Dance in America/ Mardi Gras Still Life #1 —and parallelism

—and parallelism

Printed in deep purples and grays with sharp white lines

upon closer study it reveals a sublime message of form and content

The printmaking process demanded she move beyond her characteristic restraint

grids and scars

Dance in America/ Mardi Gras Still Life #1 —and parallelismFrom 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