Drawing on Culture: West Africa
This series of original artwork was done on location while traveling through villages along the Niger River in Guinea, and is featured in my book, Drawing on Culture.
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Original artwork.
“La Chanteuse” - 11 x 14 in. (28 x 36 cm), graphite on bristol.
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La Chanteuse
11x14 graphite on bristol.
This woman was a powerful and charismatic singer that I encountered at a festival honoring the village’s former chief 40 days after his death, as is the custom in the village. She led a group of women that came to pay homage to this chief through song and dance. Her drumming kept time as the women echoed her chorus in a lively call-and-response song.
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Drawing on Culture
An Artist’s West Africa Travelogue
$19.00
In Drawing on Culture, Kobrenski shares his artwork, stories, and insights about culture and worldviews with the keen eye of an anthropologist so that we might, in turn, see our own cultural worldview with new eyes.
More than thirty new artworks from his time in Guinea are compiled here alongside his own field notes and essays. His portrait drawings inspire conversations about diversity, tradition, and why ancient ways of knowing are now more relevant than ever.
“Dave Kobrenski is a gifted artist and musician, and a better anthropologist than many of the PhDs I know. Here is a fine text that depicts people as they are, illustrates their essence, and demonstrates the importance of appreciating, without appropriating, their lives and ways of being.”