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.
“Le Vieux Fermier” - 14 x 17 in. (36 x 43 cm), graphite on bristol.
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Le Vieux Fermier
14x17 graphite on bristol.
In the villages in Guinea, much of daily life revolves around tasks related to subsistence farming. Rice, manioc, sweet potatoes, yams, and many other dietary staples are grown in the village. The work is hard, and it is not uncommon to see both young and old at work in the fields. Here, a man sorts through beans that will be sifted and then pounded with the mortar and pestle, and made into that evening’s stew.
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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.”