Adinkra is a  quilted wallhanging that speaks in layers of cloth and cultural inheritance. Framed like a window,  it invites the viewer to look inward, where fragments of Black life, pattern, and symbol are held together by care and intention. Squares hold symbols of courage, strength, good fortune, patience and in the center is Gye Nyame -  the supremacy of God.  The deliberate grid offers order, but the fabrics themselves resist uniformity, asserting the beauty of variation, improvisation, and lived complexity.  The bold sashing asserts structure with remnants from garments made, moments lived, histories carried on the body. 
The work honors quilting as a collective, intergenerational practice.  This is a quilt that insists on presence. It acknowledges the labor of Black hands, often uncredited, often erased, and elevates quilting as a form of visual language, cultural sovereignty. and intentional making.  The work resists the idea of perfection in favor of truth: seams are visible, transitions are bold, and difference is celebrated rather than smoothed away. 
this quilt is not static. By bringing together fragments into a cohesive whole, the quilt affirms that Black life, though shaped by rupture and resilience, is held together by love, memory, and intentional making. 
Turquoise print cotton backing.    Approx 46"x46"  Ready to Hang