\'Gossip\'

Dressed in brilliant batiks, two women pause in the busy day for a brief but animated conversation. Both laugh and commiserate with one another, gesticulating with their hands. Emmanuel Atiamo Yeboa portrays the pair in oils on calico, adding cutouts of batik cloth for the gowns and turbans. Original and beautiful, the work provides a glimpse of contemporary life in West Africa. It arrives in a frame of tweneboa wood.