Africa's art tradition rests in a defined and ritualized relationship between man and the Supreme Creator, the primary essence that dwells at the center of all religious processes. Art then becomes the proper instrument of expressing man's world, a measuring rod of his conception of this same world beyond the grave. In the puristic sense, art in Africa becomes a means of expressing man's will and wishes to the Creator, an assertion of his own temporality as a living being (mortal), yet bearing the distinct virtue and energy of the determinable (real and unreal) world's animus. More important, art for the African is the articulation of his own spiritual awareness and sensibility within his cosmos. So it becomes an extension ab initio of the ritualism of all things, the unified expression and morphological statement of his communal and individual aspiration toward the divine.