Threadwork, 'I Fear None But God'

Swirling lines highlight an Adinkra symbol that emerges from a brilliant checkerboard of shapes. Randy Abeka Abbam creates the image by patiently gluing cotton thread to a card stock base. Ghanaian Adinkra symbols communicate popular wisdom to the people. The impressive Gye Nyame symbol with its rotating movements is understood as "I fear none except God." Cotton thread on card stock, the work arrives in a frame of tweneboah wood.