Torkwase of Oyo NO.21 each element pressed onto the

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

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when the principal of his Philadelphia grammar school handed him a bottle of Higgins India ink

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Torkwase of Oyo NO.21 each element pressed onto 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