YemenjaFrom the Artist The subject of this print, Yemenja, grew out of research on African art and a sabbatical trip with my wife, Thomasena, to the Sacred Forest of Oshogbo, Nigeria, where we first encountered Yemenja. I had given a lecture on "African American Art and Artists" at the African Studies Center of the University of Ibadan. On the next day, the director, Bob Armstrong, invited us to go with him to Oshogbo, where we could meet Susan Wenger and

I told him they were marks and small linear forms jumping

The image was made in much the same manner as I would usually make a hand lithograph

and also steeped in that mysteriousspirit of Russian icons

Other images come from trips I have made in the United States and Europe

The expressions I present force the viewer to confront the world hidden by social politeness and smiling politicians

He kept photo albums with pithy statements penciled under the pictures

and the omnipresent knowledge of our own mortality are all themes in my works- sometimes implicitly

and sexism under colonialism

I manipulate the object in a formal manner to engage the viewer in conversation about collective meaning

—Excerpted from https://briankreydatus

“My mother was attracted to color

developing a sense of overall volume and space