The Litigant's Cloth
42" x 32"
Charcoal drawing and engraving inks on board

The litigant's cloth is always small.

Litigation is costly business and the litigant spends so much money that he or she eventually becomes poor and is unable to buy cloth big enough to fit him or her (cover himself or herself).

The proverb is a warning to people given to litigation. From Hearing and Keeping, Akan Proverbs, Vol 2. Kofi Asare Opoku