Today, I had a lot of fun creating a collage dedicated to my grandaunt Paulyne (“Aunt Paul”) Roberts’ journey from girlhood to young womanhood. Aunt Paul was a second grandmother and special shero to me.
I included photos of Aunt Paul’s childhood years, teens, twenties, and thirties in the collage and changed the colors with the filter option on Canva. One of the photos illustrates her role as a big sister to my grandmother Frederica Stanley Roberts Leeke. I duplicated copies of her mother Eunice Ann Thomas Roberts’ photo that was taken in the 1920s and added them as a border to show ow important she was in her life.
I added one Nyame Dua Ghanaian Adinkra symbol to the collage. Nyame Dua means “Tree of God” and reminds of the Divine’s presence and protection. The symbol is also used as a divine and ancestral altar. The collage functions as an ancestral altar.
Ananda Leeke 