Egbe - Road Trip

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Egbe - Road Trip

$6,000.00

Michele Tejuola Spindle

Carved and painted gourd

16” x 8” x 8”

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Egbe tells the story of women being transformed into birds. I have carved 4 different gourds telling my interpretation of this story. Many of my early themes covered Nigerian culture and religious folklore. Egbe is the story of the most senior members of a secret women’s society who travel to the forest to change into birds. I used Road Trip as the women in trucks traveling to the forest