Dance in America/ Mardi GrasFrom 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

"You will have to trust me

Since the viewer is encouraged to observe the drawings in a detailed manner

A fourth image

It was then then that my life was forever changed

This print contains several generations of image making

my journey began in childhood with the daily reality of The Holocaust in my immigrant community

with brushwork and themes

Bill Harrishas worked primarily in oil on canvas

The first and the last paddler represent the solstices

and the stories people are allowed to tell about themselves

bird’s nest

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