Daniel Asamoah Opoku
Adweneasa (Reached Consensus) Adweneasa (Reached Consensus) is my reflection on Ghana’s long contribution to the aesthetics of graphic design long before the evolution of Modern Design movement in the 1900s, and further question the definition of design modernism if not functional aesthetics. The composition of basic geometric shapes reminds me of the conscious repetition of squares, rectangles, and circles in Ghanaian pattern designs before my ancestral encounter with the Dutch De Stijl design movement in the 1900s through the transatlantic trade. This geometric interrogation seeks to excavate the layers of history in cultural suppression through colonialism, and the alteration of cultures through the penetration of one into the other in the Ghanaian socio-cultural space, as if to say Ghanaian systems of design influenced the De Stijl movement or the later influenced the other. On the surface, one may not have the answer due to the unsystematic layers in cultural hybridization. Website @dani_opoku |