ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)

"One Obeah woman thought that she made the sun rise. Each night she held back the moon and conceived a rooster which she hurled out into the sky, and it became the sun, . . . the darker side of things . . . is what the Obeah are mostly about. The Obeah go back to the Ashanti. This is magic, not religion, although it is not voodoo. Sometimes the magic and religion interweave, but as I see it, it is more about magic . . . I was very interested in the fact that the Obeah and their roots could be traced back to Africa." –Romare Bearden