sentences:  With her expressive representations of the human figure, the artist examines the formal mechanisms of the medium of painting and reveals political and psychological dimensions in her works, which focus on fictional characters who exist beyond our world in a different time and in an unknown location.She paints figures that are intentionally removed from time and place, and has stated, “People ask me, ‘Who are they, where are they?’ What they should be asking is ‘"What" are they?’ ”
  
  For an artist, she is unusual in describing herself as a writer as much as a painter—her short stories and prosy poems frequently appear in her catalogues.Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's talks about her writing is to her as her painting and explains that "she writes the things she doesn't paint and paint all the things she doesn't write."