Textiles in the History of the History of African Art

My work is described, conventionally, as “abstract.” However, given that there is a very precise, knowable set of resources at the back of it, I would describe it rather as schematic: not like a map, but like a reaction to or interpretation of a map. It is about ownership, a way to finding myelf, where I am. In that sense my work enhances a viewing of Kumasi and Ghana … my work is the outcome of a series of engagements be - tween practices, forms and visual environments that are specific to me in Ghana (Kwami 2013: 355–60).