Yejide of lwo ARTISTS_Patty Smith All my work is centered

All my work is centered by what Allen Ginsberg called"the dearness of the vanishing moment

He explores the common thread connecting higher economic systems and displacement

but not abstraction either

This particular print is part of a series of artworks I was making in video and in print on the idea of horizons

In a career that spanned half a century

Yejide of lwo ARTISTS_Patty Smith All my work is centeredFrom 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