EARL JACKSON’s RAINBOW MAKERS

Statement from the painter :

Like millions of African Americans one of my goals was to travel to my ancestral homeland, Africa.  Before that became a reality I read several books by African
and African American historians about it’s glorious past and the contributions it’s people made to advance the human race. Arming myself with the knowledge that the arts, science, religion, mathematics and philosophy originated from the Africans of the Nile Valley civilizations of Kemet (Egypt), Nubia ( Sudan), Kush ( Ethiopia) and that the modern human race’s origins are found in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania dating back 200,000 years.
Romanticizing about it’s history I created a series called the Rainbow Makers.
As the earth took shape and found it’s path around the sun these cloud dwellers emerged to create her atmosphere. They are clothed in mystery as they keep the ancient secrets of the Rainbow pouring ceremony. They pour from oversize gourds the blessings, harmony and the healing powers of the Rainbow.
On a warm summer evening after a rain shower, look carefully at the clouds and you just might catch a glimpse of a pouring ceremony.