Threadwork, 'Calabash Festival'

Women with tightly-braided hairdos clutch colorful calabashes in this enchanting work by Randy Abeka Abbam. In eastern Ghana, calabash gourds are used as drums during festivals and funerals. Abbam creates the bright image by patiently gluing cotton thread to a card stock base. "This portrays a group of women engaged in a calabash display while dancing at the same time � it shows the beauty of the calabash, " he says. Cotton thread on card stock, the work is framed in tweneboah wood.