Photographic Insights: Ceremonial Ritual in Ghana and Togo

My relationship to Secrets Under the Skin evolved through a thirty-year history of ongoing artistic creations and performance collaborations with Jill Flanders Crosby. Initially our mutual desire to use the arts as a vehicle to build bridges between diverse communities was realized through extensive arts outreach activities and large performance productions specifically created to involve local participants throughout Alaska. Over the years these projects consistently became larger and more relevant to the communities with which we were interacting, while also reaching a wider demographic. It seemed a natural evolution to our professional collaborations when in 1999 I first began accompanying