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Sami Bentil

Ghanian

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Sankefist

27" x 44"

Acrylic on Canvas

$5,415

This powerful artwork unfurls like a dream of resilience—an immense raised fist shaped into a cradle for a crimson bird, whose poised gaze seems to carry both memory and prophecy. Spiraling around the bird is a constellation of textured dots, an echo of countless voices, histories, and truths converging into one living center. Beneath it, silhouetted figures stand in quiet witness, their presence grounding the painting in collective experience.


The imagery whispers of unity and awakening: the fist as a symbol of strength and solidarity, the bird as a spirit of transformation, and the swirling patterns as the ongoing journey of a people rising toward clarity and liberation. Here, struggle meets hope, and the artwork becomes a poetic reminder that from shared endurance emerges shared possibility—a rising song held tenderly in the palm of humanity.

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