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The final exam , this drawing was made by me is a representation of what my dream is having a bakery ever since i was in third grade i knew i wanted to be an owner of a bakery, this art work represents me Ashley Ortega.

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Hi Everyone!

My name is Ashley Ortega and i love to bake something important or interesting about me is that soon i will have my baking business. The artwork i was assigned is Ibrahim Mahama 2015 Post No Bill. Jute sacks; dimensions variable, at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

- 5 FACTS -

1. The art work was made from oil paint on wood

2. Ibrahim Mahama uses the transformation of materials to explore themes of commodity,migration, and economic changes.

3. Installations are displayed in Ghanaian markets and galleries

4. They use sacks to tell the story of how Ghana was the largest cocoa producer in 1950s and 1960s

5. The works are the result of his investigation of the conditions of supply and demand in African market

- 5 New Facts -

1. His monumental installations are made from materials such as remnants of wood, or jute sacks, which are stitched together and draped over architectural structures

2. The artist currently works in Accra, Kumasi, and tamale

3. The artist recently opened SCCA tamale, an artist-run space dedicated to retrospective of practices

4. Malam dodo national theatre 1992-2016 covering of the national theater of Ghana in charcoal jute sacks as part of the exchange exchanger project

5. He reuses his art work some of his work has gone to Sydney

- Resources-

@designboom.com/art/interview-Ibrahim-Mahama-design-indaba-04-05-2020/

Did the way you think about the art change from the first time you looked at it?

- The first time i saw the art piece i just thought it was old clothes with dirt and paint over them, the pictures looked old and it looked like it could be just old rags. The Jute Sacks have a story to tell and now that i have more information it all makes sense and you can now see what the artist is trying to say by making this work. I think it was a great idea of him to use sacks to tell the story of how Ghana was the largest cocoa producer in the 1950s-1960s. Ibrahim Mahama said in an interview that “you find different points of aesthetic within the surface of the sacks fabric.” Some traditional art forms in Ghana include Adinkra symbols, kente waving,pottery, woodcarving, sculpture.