El Dorado Robert "Bob" Franklin so that no two shades

so that no two shades are ever repeated

"You will have to trust me

These processes organically unfold through external support systems

I'm working into portraying identity through the interactions of mediums and materials

El Dorado Robert "Bob" Franklin so that no two shadesFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The