'Milk Seller from the North'
A dramatic silhouette from the sensitive imagination of Emmanuel Yeboa. She is a member of the Fulani people, a traditionally nomadic cattle-herding culture in Northern Nigeria. As a vendor she travels with her child strapped to her back, a gourd filled with milk balanced atop her head. Dressed in colorful batik cloth, a simple necklace adorns her graceful profile. Yeboa explains for us his process, "First and foremost, I assemble my working tools, after which I sketch images on the calico cloth. With the sketches done, I sprinkle red and green oil paints on the calico cloth to give it a simple colorful background. I then cut out particular places I intend to replace with batik, which are later glued together." Accented in drawing ink. Arrives framed in tweneboa wood.
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