Afro-Polynesia

Provenance and Sources

This is a color composite of two designs created by the artist circa 1975.

A rubylith stencil (below left) was cut to make silkscreen prints from a freehand drawing, which is now lost. The stencil was never used to make screen prints and miraculously survived for 40 years in a portfolio case.  In 2018 it was scanned, and the digital image converted to a vector graphic in Adobe Illustrator. 

The second design (below right) derives from silk screen prints that were made in 1975.  In 2019 the design was redrawn in Adobe Illustrator.

The title reflects echoes of Polynesian stick charts used for navigation among the South Pacific Islands (below left) and African textile patterns (below right).  In the original designs these visual affinities were not intended but emerged as the designs progressed.

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