These vintage reproductions come from an earlier period in my career, shortly after I returned to the United States from Nigeria in 1987. They were originally produced in editions of 500, with the intention of making some of the work from that period available to a wider audience. For a variety of reasons, most were never widely marketed or sold. They remained with me, packed away and largely out of public view for many years. When I began going through them again, I realized I was looking at more than old inventory. I was looking at a record of an important period in my development as an artist. The images carry many of the people, experiences, and ideas that followed me home from Nigeria. Looking at them now, I can also see the beginnings of directions that continued to grow in the drawings, paintings, and mixed-media work that followed. These reproductions belong to their own time. They are not the same as the archival giclée editions I produce today, and I do not want to pretend that they are. What they offer is something different. They are surviving pieces of an earlier chapter of the work, brought back into view after spending much of their lives out of sight.