Ile of Ile IfeFrom the Artist To see is to know. But how can we know the unseenthe histories, the stories, or the names of a people that were undocumented or erased? I asked myself that question late one evening as I looked at the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama. The view from my studio faces the ruins of a dock that was, at one time, the first encounter with Tierra Firme for many weary, shackled, and enslaved

I always know where I am

What has been submerged

Individually and collectively they explored

reach to the sky

the manhole covers

My materials tend to be urban

This print contains seven figures submersed in an overlay of bright

I decided to combine archival photographs with elements from my own imagination to enhance possible interpretations

If they succeed the result will look like these images

—Excerpted from http://alonzodavis

physical bodies and our state of mind is paramount—so it should be with our approach to art

Color Woodcut