Duet for Carmen & Dizzy (Left Panel) ARTISTS_Odili D. Odita and African and Asian masks

and African and Asian masks

Williams believed that abstraction offered him much greater creative and expressive freedom than figural representation

The voices of the ancestors speak through me

In the darkness this apparition seemed unreal

Bouton grew up in Paris

Duet for Carmen & Dizzy (Left Panel) ARTISTS_Odili D. Odita and African and Asian masksFrom the Artist Duet for Carmen & Dizzyis a [two part, or diptych] tribute homage to the late Carmen McRae and John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie. The image grows out of a series of images which have developed over a 20 year period and continues to be built upon. The left half [this print] refers to Dizzy Gillespie, horn player. The rectangular form and various lines represent "Dizzy" and the circle with spiraling lines represent the source and emanations