Sankofa (with Wild Seeds)

Sankofa (with Wild Seeds)

Plants; People; Birds; Women

This is a 3-wall installation. The walls are black and lights are illuminating from the bottom of 2 walls. In the center wall is the long painting of the 4 Sankofa birds. Each of the other walls has a large cutout drawing of a woman in an almost crawling dancing form; the figures are looking up and crawling away from the painting. The woman on the left has a purple body and blue hair while the one on the right has a blue body and purple hair.

Pierce, Lela (1985-)

Visual Resources Library, EC

2019

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Art Form: Painting
Material: gouache; pen; paper
Size: big painting: 10 ft x 3 ft, wild seeds: 2.5 x 3.5 ft

20th century