Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Jasmin-Nicole Amoako

Sankofa

Painting
2021
Oil, acrylic, glitter, dried rose petals and Kanekalon synthetic hair on canvas
34.5" x 24.5"
Sankofa is an Adinkra Symbol meaning "go back and get" or "to retrieve". For this piece, I recycled the withered rose petals from a bouquet my mom gifted me last year.

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2021, My Self Kunstmatrix Exhibition
OCAD University, Toronto, ON

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Jasmin-Nicole Amoako

Drawing and Painting

“My current body of figurative and abstract work serves as a vehicle for accessing ancestral memories, and my dreams which yield growth, structure and forward movement. I apply African and Western...” [More]