My Country Needs Me Edwin Arocho (Printer) I delight in the notion

I delight in the notion that others who view my work create their own stories

She has been interested in the electronic space between images and the edges and margins of transmission that resolve themselves into meaning as they move toward the center of our vision

From the Artist: Large traditional dress (BouBou)

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

My Country Needs Me Edwin Arocho (Printer) I delight in the notionMy 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,