El DoradoFrom 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

I have been involved with high technology since 1972 when I began working with video

A bold yellow shape that represents the sun's rays surrounds the inner red-orange core

When placed side by side they look like faces or a mask

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the beacon becomes instead a conflagration of youthful ambition and ancient calendar rites held aloft on a crutch

I studied life drawing at the age of 12

My work tends to come out of personal experience of social and political issues and is often a way of working out my own fears and angst

and professor of printmaking

gathering documents

The artist outlined the silhouette in a bright white suggesting the figure emerges from a reflective surface

He consistently recycles discarded remnants of mass culture in his collagraphs

as well as being marginal