Photo by: Menseh Jones
Nora Musu is a Liberian artist whose art and life experience epitomize a multiculturalism that transcends boundaries or specific styles. The artist achieves this effect with an innovative blend of acrylic polymers, and iron and copper particles enhanced by a process of rusting and patina that results in a three-dimensional sculptural relief effect.
The significance of this painting is about the village girls doing their ceremonial dance prior to a celebration of a wedding. The girls' dance symbolizes the inner and outer of both the bride's and groom's family's history. i.e., the tree of both families. It tells who's the elder, or who gives the authority for the groom to ask the bride's hand in marriage. And, who authorizes the acceptance that the bride is ready to be taken. The girls would dance for several hours until the groom's parents come up to give the kola nuts and cowries (ceremonial items used for high esteem of African Families) as a sentiment for continuation of the ceremony. If not, the ceremony will be postponed to a later date. Because, the no show of the groom's parents do show that they are not yet ready to take the bride's hand in marriage.
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