Torkwase of Oyo NO.21 at the center of the

at the center of the frame

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framed by scrapbook cutouts of children in the Puerto Rican Day Parade

each element pressed onto the surface the way history presses itself onto people

Torkwase of Oyo NO.21 at the center of theFrom 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