Geometry of the Ancestors – African Folk Motif
This is a story about learning through presence, through rhythm, and through the quiet endurance of those who came before us.The design draws inspiration form West Africa – referencing traditional motifs from Yoruba and Akan decorative forms.
This abstracted pattern draws from the repeating rhythm of tribal motif systems. The concentric circles, zigzags, and stepped lines appear in beadwork, pottery, and textiles across many West African cultures, not as decoration but as coded memory — representing lineage, cycles, direction, and protection.
The large central form may suggest a shield, eye, compass, or celestial drum — each interpretation honoring the role of visual structure in oral tradition.
📜 Synopsis of the Story:
Long before written language, people recorded memory in movement: the swirl of a pot, the twist of thread, the carving of a calabash.
This design is built from those marks — bold, echoing, patterned — each a repetition of something once taught and now remembered. The shapes are not literal. They are mnemonic. To see them is to be reminded of something bigger than oneself.
The ancestors taught through symbols. This is one of them — still repeating.
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