All Shall Pass
Acrylic on canvas, 72" X 54", 2014
This image is based on a traditional ceremony we were invited to attend in the outskirts
of Accra, Ghana in July 2013. I have changed the colors and eliminated some of the
figures present at the ritual in order to draw attention to the gesture and activity
of the dancer. He is shown setting a bit of gunpowder on fire, which charges the
air and purifies the space in anticipation of the arrival of the deities, paving the
way for them to dance with an elevated sense of power.