Gullah Gal, Dr. Ramona La Roche, is the Founder of Gullah Galz Ink, LLC. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, Columbia College in South Carolina, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Ramona returned to her ancestral home several years ago, and has been writing and actively listening to her guardian spirits since. Her first book, Black America Series: Georgetown County, SC by Arcadia Publishers, SC, printed in 2000 covers agriculture, commerce, industry, political, spiritual life, and recreational aspects of this culturally rich, rice producing landmark of South Carolina low country.
The imagery and the rites of passage often associated with that of crossing over, passing (on), or stepping have long been associated with transcendence from one world to another. There is always an ascension of sorts, connected with such acts. The author explores the African Diaspora’s spiritual link between the people from the shores of the Western motherland, to the Gullahs (Geechees) of the coastal Southeastern low country.
“I was born to create. From a young child, I remember how things with lots of texture felt as I continually stroked my little hands across them.”
A memorial to our sister Zelda Grant, who was a self-taught fabric artist with an eye for manipulating colors, textures and designs. She had the ability to craft whatever her mind conceived.
