Pattern is any decorative, repetitive motif or design. The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists $($ fig. $4\mathrm{.}40,$ page $105)$ by photographer Samuel Fosso, uses close to a dozen patterns in one image to create his poignant and thought$-$provoking work. He sits calmly in the center of the cacophony of color and pattern, "dressed as an outrageous parody of a traditional ruler." Getlein notes that an example of the the royalty that he is mocking is: