Jonkonnu FestivalThis print depicts a celebration of Jonkonnu, an animal masquerade and dance tradition dating back to the time of African slavery in the 17th century. It's associated with Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean, as well as some southern areas of the United States. Usually held around Christmas, Jonkonnu provided enslaved people the opportunity to abandon their harsh labors for a day of festivity, parading with music and dance drawn from their

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Collaborating Printer: Bob Franklin

Working through a modern approach to engraving

They are much like treesand leave behind the mark of man’s intervention on nature

Other images come from trips I have made in the United States and Europe

Upon my return I decided tobuy a house

as well as surface texture

My surrealistic nature inspires the creation of masks suggesting the hidden universality of people of all races

the estate of the artist

Cantú (2002)

One of the things I like about printmaking is the serendipitous result

1992 (figure 201)