The Sound of Soul Strings

Original - Oil on canvas
24" x 30"

This is one of two paintings inspired by being involved in an exhibition at the Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta using the theme, “From Songhai to Symphony Hall”.  The notes in this painting are taken from the spiritual "Wade in The Water" and the score indicates the tone of the sound of soul. I incorporated the stringed instruments of ancient Africa and those of today. The one stringed Njarka, the banjo, the piano, and the violin are evident. The addition of Kente cloth is the tie that binds them all together signifying the rhythm inspired by the ancestors. By using my signature style of "Plastic Space" I have managed to blend them all together in rhythmic waves of movement flowing in and around the objects creating a lively and colorful pattern of energy.