Through Cortada’s residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center (part of a Home + Away program with Oolite Arts), the artist furthered his investigation of the Adinkra symbols within the perspective of a traditional fine art material; bronze. The dichotomy that exists between ephemerality and permanence has long been a part of Cortada’s work, the presumption of art as a living, engaged culture. Bronze’s cultural importance resides in it being a historically significant metal to the development of human civilization. When used in the depiction of the Adinkra symbols, the ensuing sculptures appear timeless, seemingly as old as the iconography upon which they are based.