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Successions and Reflections: Heirs of a New Country is the first solo exhibition by recent Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate Conrad Egyir. Egyir was born and raised in Ghana and is heavily influenced by a rich art form of storytelling in West Africa; his creative practice borrows from a pool of uniquely coded text and the visually based language systems of his roots. The artist explores the relationship between his past experiences in Africa and his present home in the United States, drawn to themes that define the then and now, disparities and similarities, and the image and the self. He …