About the Art: Aunt Hester going up Yonder was inspired by Frederick Douglass’s account of his first observation of slavery’s atrocities. His Aunt Hester was a woman of noble form and beauty. She was beaten in the kitchen of her owner as Young Frederick observed from a kitchen closet. The crime was returning after dark with an enslaved man.
This is the only work in which I intentionally hide figures. My other works contain hidden images that were not intended. The work itself was inspired by a tree outside of my office which contained the image of a woman with upwardly stretched arms and leaves that were clustered in the shape of Africa.
Giclée :High quality individual prints that are of museum archival quality. They are able to produce subtle variations in tone and fine details. They are created with an extremely high resolution dot matrix printer.
Limited Edition :Printing only a specified number of giclées. The number is determined with the initial and is not changed. ​
Given the limited nature of the art, the giclées has the potential of reaching a value that matches or exceeds that of the original.