In 2008, Chris and Tammi moved to Ghana West Africa where they began a deeply influential two-year stint as U.S. Peace Corps volunteers.

They found Ghana to be a country of both complex cultural and ecological diversity, a country filled with amazing people with great potential, yet also a country of great paradoxes.  Chris’s personal journey can be described as disparate.  “I felt as if I was being constantly jerked back and forth between deep frustration to profound jubilation” he stated.

Upon returning to the U.S., Chris began to develop a body of work influenced by the effects of living in Ghana.  This work was the embodiment of his personal reflections and the processing of thoughts and emotions as he continued to readjust to life back in America.  The work borrows from tribal aesthetics, reflects on the various craft forms and pays homage to the many traditional artisans he now knows as friends.  Through this work he projects his concerns, frustrations, joys, and the beauty he encountered on a daily basis, as well as the new perspective he gained of his own culture.