"Twelve Tribes" by Derek Fordjour is a twelve part mixed media work that combines acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, and oil pastel applied to newspaper and mounted on canvas within a custom artist's frame. The work exemplifies Fordjour's characteristic layering of materials and gestural mark making across a fragmented compositional structure. Through its use of found and humble materials, the piece engages themes of identity, community, and cultural representation while maintaining a dynamic visual tension between abstraction and figuration.