Andrea Tosten

About the Artist

The difficulty Andrea Tosten finds in tracing her family’s African history from the Akan and Yoruba people leads her to a research-based exploration of the connections between socio-mathematics, traditional patterns, and rudimentary attempts to contact extraterrestrials. Just as she must meta-physically traverse time and space to connect with her ancestors, light-years must be crossed to contact extraterrestrials. Tosten uses the processes of hand-lettering, repetitive drawing, found objects, and heliograph signals in Morse code to create and examine these connections.