Drawing on Culture: West Africa
Original artwork featured in the book,
Drawing on Culture.
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“La Grand-Mère” - 14 x 17 in. (36 x 43 cm), graphite on bristol.
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La Grand-Mère
14x17 graphite on bristol.
In the mornings, when the village was bathed in a soft golden light and the air was still cool, I would go walking down the dusty paths that led between the clusters of small round huts. Since greetings are so important to the Malinké, it was a good opportunity for me to practice my Mandi’nka language skills — saying ‘hello’ and ‘good morning’ and ‘how did you sleep’ and ‘how is your health’ and on and on, to everyone I met! This woman was so delighted to see a foreigner speaking to her in her own language that she lit up with joy. She was quite a radiant human being.