Bag Lady NO.25 Jerome O’Neal first came into contact

O’Neal first came into contact with a medium called lampblack—a type of carbon residue sometimes used as a paint pigment

the exchange of academic experience and collaborations with colleagues at other institutions

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but I did know that making images is what made me feel most alive and connected to the world

using the lab's microscope and camera lucida

Bag Lady NO.25 Jerome O’Neal first came into contactFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The