Cosmic Serpent, 72" x 84", acrylic on canvas, from exhibit Tribal Portraits, Salt Lake City Library, 2007
Janjaweed: Devil Horse, 72" x 84", acrylic on canvas
This Painting represents the Sudanese Arab Muslims raiding the South Sudanese African Muslims
This exhibit, Tribal Portrait, observes the destructive and restorative cycles that we as humans have perpetuated since the beginning: War, Brutality, Greed, Hope, Redemption, Purification and Rebirth.
Hope, 72" x 84 ", acrylic / areosol on canvas . This painting is about a young woman in Sudan who stands in her torn white dress vowing to avoid rape. She is gesturally quieting violence. Women and girls are the hope of Sudan and Africa..
African Epic:
Tribal Portraits
Tribal Portraits: transcending war, brutality, greed, redemption purification and rebirth.
These three paintings were exhibited at the Main Salt Lake Library in 2007.
The Library exhibit consisted of six meditation paintings that were accompanied by a Butoh performance (by RaKan), this created a circle around the concepts of the sacred and the profane. The Butoh performance is a physical offering for purification and transcendence. On one side of the gallery were paintings of the profane (war and violence) and on the other side were the meditations of the sacred (purification & rebirth). Many people crowed into the small gallery for the performance, which knitted together the dichotomous nature of a Tribal Portrait into a universal concept. We are all part of the tribal nature.
We all originated in Africa and we are all imprinted with the same patterns. Scientifically, all of our behavior whether in a first or third world country is based in evolutionary biology.