My Country Needs Me Edwin Arocho (Printer) From the Artist: Large traditional

From the Artist: Large traditional dress (BouBou)

My earlier works expressed an evolutionary process with a series of prints in which one print gave rise to the next

A red bolt in the center

almost making our way through the transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age

The figures are anonymous portraits of characters or types

My Country Needs Me Edwin Arocho (Printer) From the Artist: Large traditionalMy Country Needs Me, 1996 Offset Lithograph Edition of 80 21 1 4 x 30 in Collaborative Printer: Bob Franklin At the top of this print, a line of text reads: My country needs me, and if I were not here, I would have to be invented. The words come from Hortense Spillers' landmark essay "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," a foundational text in African American feminist literary criticism on the origins and abuse of racial and gender based language. Below them,