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[[underline]] Critique of Akili's Work [[/underline]]-
He unfurls a large rolled up canvas on the floor.

[[underline]] Akili [[/underline]]-This is from a series. I began cutting them up and combining them. Eventually I want to super impose different symbols on top of the painting. I've been working on these for a couple of years. 

[[underline]] Stevens [[/underline]]- Are you printing on these?

[[underline]] Akili[[/underline]]-The yellow is silk screen. I have figures of animals and people

[[underline]] Donaldson [[/underline]]-What chnanges [[changes]] did you make in the Kinte cloth pattern?

[[underline]] Akili [[/underline]]- Mostly color and shape changes, the original design is blown up ;in scale. The base coat is tiny circles. I threw pennies on the canvas and sprayed it.

[[underline]] Rose [[/underline]]-Can they be used in the home as rugs?

[[underline]] Donaldson [[/underline]]- Why did you use Kinte cloth to extend?

[[underline]] Akili [[/underline]]- Kinte cloth is a garment of royalty-I use it to reflect African patterns as theater backdrops and on an album cover.

[[underline]] Donaldson [[/underline]]-Expresses Afri Cobra's previous concern with peoples total living spaces..

[[underline]] Akili [[/underline]]- Shows wooden toys he has make and is producing on a large scale for retailing. They are designed with symbols black children can relate to. A train-elephant on wheels and a puzzle(3d) of Africa. 

[[underline]] Critique of Michael Auld's Work [[/underline]]-

The piece of sculpture is called Olokun Has Returned 

Olokun is the Yoruba god of the sea come to land. It has legs of mudfish, the eel or snake is represented in a circular form( it has to do with the continuity of the earth)

[[underline]] Donaldson [[/underline]]-Feels that the bottom goes flat detracting from the rest of the sculpture. He points out that Michael has brought the Caribe and African dieties [[deities]] into view, when previous concern has been with Afro-American culture primarily. 

[[underline]] Stevens [[/underline]]-Reads the bottom as part of the piece. 

[[underline]] Auld [[/underline]]- Its [[it's]] intended to be a stand, its [[it's]] a resolution of the support of the sculpture.