From my understanding, the ways that Betye Saar's painting relates to Ani's work in the African utamawazo’s theory of humanness is by reiterating Ani’s point when she says that “We, as humans, are not whole beings, but rather made up of parts that are in continual conflict with one another”. Ani believes that human beings are cosmic beings that interact with other beings in the cosmos. She says that humans are the subjects of the cosmos and are affected by the environment that they live in. And in the painting “Black Girl’s Window” by Betye Saar, the clear interpretation of African Utamawazo’s Theory of Humaness can be seen. In Betye Saar’s painting, she displays the different parts of life that conflict with one another and how all of these
