tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78303656738821547552024-03-05T16:25:03.680+02:00Fred-a-sketchTelling stories with pictures,sketches, doodles.fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-66380317668583120142017-12-11T11:17:00.003+02:002017-12-11T11:17:37.533+02:002017 in a nutshell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has been a long time, a wee bit over a year since I last posted. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
since I last really did paint or sketch. I definitely failed on that
objective of mine to create more space for illustration, sketching and
creation. I would justify it stating that 2017 was a gap year. And try
to con myself, which, since I have a selective brain, may just work. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
excuse, or year in a nutshell: uncertainties about jobs for me and my
wife, loss of opportunities and contracts and a rapid and heartbreaking
decision we made to move from Zimbabwe to Belgium. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
over 15 years abroad, the decision was not a light one. A month after
we decided, we moved, 2 suitcases each, in a house found over the
internet and visited by my folks -who have been incredible in sorting
out things for our arrival. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
followed scores of administrative procedures to "exist" back in
Belgium. To say it in a few words: we really, really missed Zimbabwe and
Mozambican administration where at least you can talk to real people,
not fight with pre-designed options to tick. Try ticking non existent
options, it makes the system bug. We successfully made the system bug a
couple of time. A satisfying experience in hindsight, but infuriating on
the moment, time consuming, a great test to patience and faith. Glad we
gained skills dealing with civil servants that are underpaid, under
educated, absent, unmotivated, tired, corrupt or busy eating in the past
fifteen years. It trained us to face the Belgian ones. Now six months
down the line, we think that we are now "ok". </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
move to a new country, getting things in for the house, stuff like a
car, bikes, sofas, a lawnmower, chickens and rabbits. Then have our dog
fly -another chapter to the book of great admin conversations-, and
looking for a job for my wife - five Chapters in the book, three of them
being for the sound of answering machines and response-less calls. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In September things got back on track for my job, and I have not really been home since. Just a lot of work. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between the move, the procedures, the kids management I have had little time to paint and draw. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New year resolution number:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Get the F*[%!#$ brush wet again and the nibs running. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It always works best with swearwords. Or with extremely well defined and precise ones. I try to alternate the two. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, among the paints we could not take in our suitcase, were these last ones. </span></span><br />
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did a collage on a door and put the door in the room where people stare
at doors the most, which is the bathroom/ lavatories. I recently went
to visit HIM the Emperor Haile Selassie house in Addis and had the
immense privilege to see that he too had a porcelain toilet. If He had
to do it, it is safe to say that no one is exempt (maybe Chuck Norris,
not too sure about him). This means that art can benefit from
undistracted attention when carefully displayed for the entertainment of
all with a bowel activity. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
collage took a fair bit of time to finish, was made out of magazines
articles that we liked and for which we kept the mags. A lot of stars,
travel, nature, oceans and art stuff. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The door is in Harare, we'll see it back one day. </span></span><br />
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also had fun with cans and did a couple of Muhammed Ali stencils. For
fun. Now I'm cutting a picture of my daughter, playing in the ocean. I
prepared for a 9 layer stencil. It takes ages. I kind of underestimate
the amount of work the water gives. One day I shall finish that too. </span></span></div>
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fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-63309446085544569632016-11-21T10:37:00.000+02:002016-11-21T10:37:48.262+02:00Novembre Zim<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My father in law is renovating a lodge on lake Kariba, at Tiger bay. He invited us over for the WE, so we did what all responsible parents do, we took the kids out of school and headed straight for the lake.<br />
So we thought. The car was packed with suitcases and food, the kids in, all sharp, ready to go.<br />
It just would not start.<br />
Bummer. Not a cough, just the dry noise of an unhappy engine.<br />
That feeling when you are at the height of expectation and then it just does not come,... a serious anti-climax.<br />
I saw the day before that our fuel gauge was not working, so went to get some diesel just in case, filled the car . It started. It was just very dry, and parked on a slope, on the sand pit the kids use as their fairy tale land, filled with cliffs and caves. No Diesel no go, Diesel go.<br />
Act 2: ready (again), off we went. Only 60 km up the road, 5 police road blocks later, the cars starts to overheat. F***k.<br />
To make the story short, we go back home the same night.<br />
It felt like karma, maybe for taking the kids out. Or the car's way of expressing discontent at a compliment my wife made on another car, the legendary Landie sensitivity. So, only a day late, with a borrowed car, we get to the lake. We spend the next 4 days in the middle of the bush, kids mostly in the pool, fishing in the evening, just chilled.<br />
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Lots of elies, hippos and crocs. Far too many crocodiles indeed.<br />
The WE in Kariba was welcome. We returned to Harare, to learn that the school was offering the possibility for parents to not bring their children to classes, because the city dumpsite was on fire. The smoke packed with heavy metals, arsenic, cyanide and other nasty things was a bit too close and did not seem to stop at the school compound's boundaries.<br />
Hot stinky and dangerous.<br />
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Finally rain came. It has been nearly 8 dry months, and a heavy
build up for it, with record high temperatures over the last couple of
weeks.<br />
Dryness and heat, the grass brittle, the trees in flower,
and many, many fires. Smokes turn the sky pink and pastel when the sun
goes down, flames provide exquisite views when they set a hill alight in
the night, but they burn, clog the air and stretch the nature to its
limits in the last months of winter.<br />
With rain, dust settles, the sky clears up and the nature breathes.<br />
Temperature dropped significantly. 2 weeks ago we were sweating over
34, and rains dropped the air to a humble 15 in a flash. That is as
radical as an ice bucket challenge, unprepared, with nowhere to escape. <br />
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Back to realities. Headlines packed about corrupt officials, outrageous salaries of civil servants and party cronies, political wars,... Unpleasant.<br />
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The economic situation is dire. There is no cash available, banks only allow people to take 50 usd per day, and businesses 500 usd. People queue for hours to get their money out of banks. Old faceless dollars that you need to scrutinize closely to figure out if its a 1, 2 or 5 dollar-note. It is not easy to live in a place where everyone struggles to have cash, where plastic and cell-phone based payments become the norm. Now there is the threat of the introduction of the "bond-notes", a type of monopoly money, backed by nothing, the government wants to introduce on parity with the USD. People just fear that their accounts will be changed overnight, and that they will receive bond notes, spiraling again in hyperinflation and scarcity, as it happened first decade of the millennium. It is very frustrating to see the way this place is managed and led, the level of corruption and embezzlement. Very sad.<br />
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And upon return from Kariba, we just heard the choice the USA made for president and government, and felt the world was in a worst place than the day before. Very disappointing, sad and scary. The rise of populists, extremists and fundamentalists are never good news. The fact that they congratulate each others is also concerning.<br />
I guess it's karma for having the Cubs win this year. Against all the laws of the universe,... heavy toll.<br />
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We should head back to the lake, away from civilization, networks and information overload, and live on fish.<br />
Oh, no, I forget, we could not catch fish,... </div>
fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-79181885508013239392016-10-21T12:34:00.000+02:002016-10-21T12:47:45.214+02:00Back to Dublin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tricky times for me in Dublin. There are big changes happening at work, and my colleagues and I are reasonably stressed, angry and frustrated. So the days at the office are very different than what I experienced before. I work with incredible people, committed, passionate,... and they feel like they don't really control the situation. Rather unpleasant. <br />
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So after work, i much preferred a pub-evening to a TV/ email night in the B&B.<br />
Dublin's pubs are amazing. People talk. People tell their stories, of their family, the incomprehensible political affairs or passionately mumble interesting series of sounds expecting me to understand. I can get if it is Irish or not. Then, if the accent is too strong and the person describes places and people, I smile and sip my beer, then I nod and smile again.<br />
In Ireland I am the simpleton. <br />
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In this pub I witness the win of <a href="http://simonwhitlock.tv/" target="_blank">Whitlock</a> on TV, quite an amazing darter. I would recommend checking him out, registering in his fanclub and supporting him unconditionally. The guy does things with darts, surgically puts them in the right places, at the right time. It almost feels sad for his opponents. <br />
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Walking on the pier in Dun Laoghaire puts ideas and priorities in place. The two first weeks of October where incredible, warm and clear, with only little wind. loved it. </div>
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I must have mentioned it before but I do not like the sketchbook I have at the moment. I still cannot get around the paper. It's drinking too much and does not dry quick enough, botching. Drinking too much, and I cannot work my ink with water as much as i want. doesn't dry quick enough and the paper remains moist. impossible to work on wet, nor dry. </div>
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We went walking in <a href="http://www.glendalough.ie/" target="_blank">Glendalough</a>, a couple of hours walk, an hour outside of Dublin, with spectacular sceneries. The walk was lovely, through an oak forest, then pine trees then the grass and blueberry bushes, tiny purple flowers and unconcerned deers. The mountain (aka hills) went from bright orange to dark green, resting on the two lakes.<br />
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Then, in the distance are the ruins of an ancient monastic-town, which used to be an intellectual hub back in the days. As much as intellectual and 12th century Europe can relate. One feat of the place is a long, pencil shaped tower, with a door that is high above ground. Some say the tower was designed to protect the population and warn of invaders, the raids of the vikings were not pleasant or accommodating towards monks.<br />
When I saw the tower, I knew better. I had seen it before. I have watched Rapunzel, and can recognize the tower she was locked in. All my kids have confirmed about it too. I was very glad to have made it to my first real-life fairy tale princess castle. Missed her by a couple of centuries, happens.<br />
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actually these pictures were taken in London, in the pub down the road of my very good mates Rob and Ange. Nothing to do with Ireland. the beer looks like a Guinness, but it is not. It's actually a Pressed Rat and Warthog. Great name for a beer when meeting Zimbos in the UK.<br />
the picture looks good here.<br />
Slainte!<br />
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fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-45262633002455292092016-10-20T17:14:00.001+02:002016-10-21T12:45:46.452+02:00London in ales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
September, October,I just
got to spend a couple of days in London and in
Ireland for work. It has been over a decade since I last was in London. A
very faithful city, where changes are measured by the ticketing system
of the tube,
and the clothes people wear. Very different from the drastic
transformation of neighborhoods, roads and communities we can see in
Nairobi, Addis or Kolkata. London peacefully breathe when others blow
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I also got quite a great news: the <a href="http://www.urbansketchers.org/" target="_blank">Urban Sketcher</a> crew asked
me to be one of their correspondent! I am really chaffed, but realized that I
had kind of failed to open my black books since early June. I am not a consistent
blogger, which is expected. So: room for improvement, and an extra motivation
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often have grand plans. I can see
really clearly things to do and how to do them in my head, but I
struggle to make them real. If I give birth to one project for every
100, that is good. Just for Octobre I was
planning to go on the <a href="http://inktober.com/" target="_blank">Inktobre</a> challenge, learn how to use a hashtag, try to update my blog, to sketch roads and places in London and Dublin, to do some
cartoons illustrating the holidays, to paint my
daughter’s bedroom (bucket list for over a year), to make a hundred swords (and
shields) for my son to sell, to start a comic book,… I guess there are too many
things, and too few hours/ days. And I need to accommodate a full time job I
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It’s outside of working hours, there is food, socials, pints
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Pubs
in Paddington, pints of ales and English bitters, versatile pub-food
and people speaking dozen of languages appreciating the same piece of
English heritage, a pub-quizz with mates, ageless carpets and the
constant ballet between the gents and the door, for a quick fag and
chat. <br />
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Funny
how a drawing tells me stories. This sketch was done after I prayed
with a pirate and his wife, on a boat rolling with rum and wine! A
couple of hours spend on board of a boat on the canal, invited by a
couple to discuss life on the water and sharing stories. <br />
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I often sketch when I travel, probably because I find more time. When I am home, I let the kids tell the stories in "daddy's books". <br />
It's much better, and it turns my stories into ours. <br />
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Antakya is on the border with Syria. It use to be called Antioch, the city is as old as history, and you can feel the wisdom of the time in its streets. To live in such closeness with the past makes people somehow more grounded. History teaches changes and shows that with the consideration of time, surviving depends on cooperation, care and support between people. Strength, violence and force are short lived. It is no wonder why fundamentalists and autocrats of all kinds spend so much energy to re-write history, to destroy sites and foundations. Those are signs of their failure.</div>
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In the old part of the city, many doors are adorned with blessings and the symbols of the religions of the book, the cross, the star, the crescent. </div>
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My Syrian colleagues told me the stories of their country and of the peace that was existing between the faith, tales of the past and forgotten great men like the Poet Al Ma'arri, of holy sites that are shared between communities, stories of beauty. I found it important, given that now Syria and the region is mostly presented through the lenses of violence, fundamentalism and intolerance. It just puts things in perspective. How small bands of men can do so much harm, how they are so far away from the deep desire of peace and compassion the vast majority of us seek. Fundamentalism and bigotry don't stand the test of time, but they destroy so much. Totally uncool. </div>
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On the other side of the mountain, less than 50 km from Antakya, in Syria, people's lives are destroyed. My colleagues told me their stories, the ones of their families, their friends or strangers. They taught me hope, bad things are always short lived. Inch Allah.<br />
In Antakya-city one cannot really feel the conflict on the other side ofthe mountain. A great part of the population is Syrian, the city is on the border, but life continues as if nothing is happening. People meet, shop, play, smoke, go on with their lives. There are, for sure, tensions, but they don't sweat to the eye of the outsider. Stillness. <br />
And bombs exploded in Ankara, a kind reminder that Turkey as well is involved in the conflict. Every months there are new fronts, and they are feeding more violence, more radicalism, more intolerance. Lybia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, France, Burkina Faso, Belgium, Syria, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaysia, USA, Somalia, Kenya, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, the UK,... when naming countries starts getting in the 3 digits. Violenceis widespread, but always you see solidarity, compassion, empathy and greatness. <br />
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And the war will stop. I have been invited to share food and good company by friends in the other side of the border. In time of peace. <br />
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People in airports. Killing time in the plane, in airports. Sketching strangers. <br />
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I cannot play any instruments and I cannot sing. I have an amazing voice, the America Got Talent winning type of voice, mind you, but I just cannot remember any words of any songs. This includes the hits happy birthday or Frere Jacques... So, being musically handicapped, I like when people pick up their fiddle, their pipes and start singing, downing beers and sharing music. In Dun laoghaire, I especially like the Mc Loughlin. I feel home there. Pat the bartender recognizes me, musicians are very friendly and the Guinness never dries up. </div>
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One of the musician, Rosie had a watercolour set, so I borrowed it to sketch her mates. Really nice. </div>
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What a change, how lively it is, the country is back swagging, people go out, beaches and bars are full, what a change from last year, the contrast is enormous, highlighting both the resilience of the people from Salone and the admirable way they changed their habits and life, to respond to the worst Ebola outbreak. </div>
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I have so much respect for them, now we are drinking, we are dancing and playing ball on the beach, that's the way we roll! </div>
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People are back in the streets, gazillions of them, and I could spend some time in the markets and slums of Freetown. Informal settlements during the week and touristy spots on the WE. <br />
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Thanks guys for taking me out to the Whatsapp -and filling a USB with local tunes. A cool venue to dance on nigerian, ghanean, Salone beats, azondo, dancehall, ndombolo and others! So nice to go out! So much more simple than in zim. You don't feel like an intruder, you're a guest and it feels good.<br />
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Quincy (previousely known as Paddy's) is another night spot, a bar, dancefloor and pool tables on the beach. I went there because I couldn't not go out. It's Freetown and Ebola is over. You have to dance for life. I was thinking I'ld find people in that popular venue but no-one I knew was there. There was a police-force function, with distribution of certificates and prizes, then the music kicked in.<br />
When I'm alone I sketch. As a man alone in a bar, I draw attention, and the solitude is quickly broken by friendly ladies of the night. I find that drawing enables to switch the conversation, to discuss about something else than love, businness and attraction. We then get to chat about what I am doing, I get to do their portrait and chat about our lives, the children, the jobs, dreams of success and a good life. I like to hear stories of people. I think that in a sense that is what I do. Last year a young girl in india asked me what I was doing. I was visiting her school, in a brick kiln. the workplace of her family. It is difficult for me to explain my job to children, so I said that I am hearing stories from people all over the world and I can share them. In a way I am a storyteller. I am collecting hundreds of stories, snippets of life from people who have/ are facing hardship and from those who live with empathy and compassion. I collect stories of violence and love, poverty and dreams, neglect and care.<br />
And I see with so much clarity the similarity in the human experience, regardless of colour, gender, religion, group of belonging, environment... humans are designed to love, to help each others, to cooperate and to show compassion. Whatever the situation, be there war, natural disaster, violence... there will always be people who will care and help, regardless of the danger, regardless of themselves. <br />
I met last week a beautiful women, she is working for the catholic church in a war zone, helping to provide health facilities to over half a million people. Under the bombs. On one side you have people trying hard to destroy, on the other you have others that keep on building and caring regardless. They win. She told me that she spoke to the bishop about the extreme situation she is working in, and yet that feeling of being alive, happy and so looking forward to go back in the field. Under the bombs, living surrounded by violence. The bishop said that it was like being in Love. Love make people do crazy things, forgetting themselves and yet feeling in complete harmony and peace.<br />
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My daughter can share images from her head, she can put thoughts in other people's heads and dreams. She is 5, she is right, she shares good thoughts. I should do that more often.Kids know things adults have forgotten.<br />
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South Sudan is an interesting place to find yourself in.<br />
Curfews, stories of violence, of fights, stories of survival, stories of disappointments. <br />
I spend most of the time in Goal's compounds in Twic and Agok, a few hours by plane north of Juba, at the border with Sudan.<br />
Very far from anything. In Twic there is no coca cola nor pepsi. That is how remote it is.<br />
I visited nutrition centers and hospitals, met with women groups, discussed about childhood and access to adulthood with community members... great. <br />
Interesting for me, a few weeks before I was in Ethiopia, in the refugee camps of Gambella, populated by South Sudanese Nuer. Here I was in South Sudan, with the Dinkas.<br />
Nuer and Dinkas are the two main groups fighting against each-other, with horrible stories of massacres, mutilation, hate. The Nuers I met all had nasty stories about Dinkas. For me it is difficult to truly understand how different they are, and what is the base of so much hate. They seem to be so similar.<br />
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It should costs the world 800 millions a year, to assure peace, survival, education and health in this war-thorn country. Half has been raised in 2015. Whilst I was there people were looking at the options to shut down operations, lack of funds means to close nutrition centers, delivery rooms, community support... <br />
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When I came back someone asked me if it would not just be better to stop the humanitarian aid, stop accepting refugees and leave the people to sort their problems out.<br />
A watch and see attitude.<br />
Behind it is the opinion that Humanitarian aid can fuel or help maintain conflict. I didn't really knew how to respond and make sense of my position. Yes, maybe, humanitarian action and human kindness are giving an option to people that are suffering to seek shelter, hospitality and help. And that might not push them to fight back, and maybe sort out the problem.<br />
And continue the cycle of violence.<br />
And enable the strongest, with the most weapon, cash to destroy the others. And the most vulnerable are children, women, old people. The past, the future and the creators. <br />
It's like telling a kid that has been raped or beaten to sort his/her shit out with his/her abuser.<br />
It is siding with the bully. I feel it is not good.<br />
So why is humanitarian aid so essential? Because it remind us to embrace that this world deserve to exist in a multi-cultural way, where all have the right to exist.<br />
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Today, in Paris world leaders are discussing Climate change and environment. It is a great challenge for humankind, I am happy it is a growing concern.<br />
One of the other challenge that not many are addressing is the systematic cultural diversity destruction that is happening. Languages, ways of living, cultures are permanently removed and with them our human identity.<br />
We destroy the environment, but we are even more efficient in destroying ourselves, and destroying those who do not thing like us. If people think differently, have other ways to eat, pray, relate... I think to myself "wahw, they are showing me a new way to be human". And they deserve respect and the right to exist. <br />
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So, is the country under Humanitarian-dip? For sure.<br />
Does it have negative
impact? Yes probably.<br />
Does it cost a lot? 80 USD per year per South
Sudanese.<br />
What is the impact? Life-changing. Enabling people to survive,
to live better and to build a future, not only for the people of South Sudan, but for all of us, and our human diversity.<br />
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Fascinating thing in South Sudan is the bird diversity. Small colorful bee-eaters, vultures, kites, eagles, to big crested cranes. Its a great place to see those flying things.<br />
And cows. Everywhere, with their massive horns. Beautiful..<br />
And very, very tall people. I'me average size, some of the Nuers and Dinkas tower me from two heads above. They are majestic in the way they walk, the scarification on their faces and bodies, the bond they have with their cattle, it is very strange and beautiful. And often beyond my capacity to understand.<br />
The relation with the cattle is very difficult for me to get. I see steak, they see an extension of themselves, wealth and respectability, honor, spirituality, I don't know.<br />
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fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-67047774084658887352015-11-27T09:34:00.000+02:002015-11-27T11:00:20.684+02:00Ethiopia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I came back from 5 weeks working in Ethiopia and South Sudan, and with a short trip to Nairobi.<br />
Exceptional countries for many different reasons. Unique.<br />
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I Ethiopia I mainly worked with Goal's teams in Gambella's refugee camps; welcoming people fleeing South Sudan, and with organizations responding to unaccompanied children on the move: street children, immigrants... <br />
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In Gambella alone there are over 120'000 refugees. Only 10% of them are men. The Men are mostly still in South Sudan, trying to save their cattle, fields and property. Women, children and old people have moved to seek security and to ensure survival.<br />
They feel that life in a camp is better than life at home. Says it all.<br />
It was very powerful to be there when Europe was -finally- opening its eyes on the people choosing to move out of their homeland and seeking refuge in a foreign land. It felt as if the Old lady woke up after a huge binge-drinking bender, with a headache and somehow surprised about "What the hell is happening?".<br />
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There are an estimate of 60 millions refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, among which 19 millions are refugees and asylum seekers. In 2014-2015 the USA welcomed 121.000 of them, Russia 274.000 and the entire European Union member states 695.000.<br />
On one side people are debating their hospitality and hosting ability, they are wondering what makes it impossible for the migrants to stay in their homeland. They are fearing for their comfort and respond with hate. They are showing the worst: locked doors, fear, hate, racism etc. True pollution.<br />
On the other hand, some opinions shared publicly are showing compassion, empathy and the best human can give: love and care. <br />
Anyway.<br />
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Ethiopia revealed itself to me by the kindness and hospitality of the people. Without understanding the languages, discovering a society so truly fundamentally different than mine, I felt hosted and welcomed by all. From the coffee ladies, the bar-customers, the social workers or the people sitting and looking whilst I am drawing, I really felt a true interest in being with me.<br />
Very uplifting indeed. <br />
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I loved being there, experiencing the polychomatic world of diversity, having my soul strengthen, and my comfort shaken. I love feeling the togetherness. It is cool.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The author, <a href="http://sarahsavory.com/" target="_blank">Sarah </a>just got the books in Zimbabwe and it has been on sale online for a couple of weeks now. </span><br />
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So, from Kathmandu, I was invited to go to Kolkata, to work with our team in India. </div>
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It is great to finally meet up with people in reality, since all of our contacts have been over skype or via email: as good as a video can be. In Kathmandu I got some essential clues about some of my colleagues. For example <i>S.</i> forgot her shoes, the size of my daughter's. I then concluded that she had two small feet and have been wearing shoes. I could not say if she was currently wearing shoes, because I did not know if she had another pair. One cannot google that type of thing. </div>
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I actually think it could be nice to have a TV show called City swap, and have Kolkata populated with Belgians and Luxembourgers. The latter will be in charge of the rickshaws, and the first ones of everything else. We'll leave the policing to the limburgers and religious duties to the carolos. It could be wonderful. There are great palaces to accommodate the Belgian king and no other european will realize that cars coming from Belgium are driven, on the wrong side of the road, by a West-Bengali . They will curse the license place in the same way. </div>
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So two weeks in Kolkata, mainly working, and being caught by the monsoon. Not much life sketches done really.<br />
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A tea-shot-glass-pottery. Made for people to have a shot of rich creamy and spicy tea then discard the pot. Really amazing. I saw some guys making these, hundreds a day. I also saw many paper shot cups, Nescafe-branded, probably a couple of cents cheaper and more convenient to carry and store. The first one is like drinking a poem, the second,... in a paper cup: convenient, ugly, blunt and lifeless. <br />
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Then are the legions of public transport vehicles: the ambassador taxis, looking retro and important; the bajaj, or three wheeler taxis, dangerous and obnoxious. Same colour than in Mozambique, the yellow and green <i>tchopelas</i> are everywhere (especially in the Complain section of the local press). Then are the man-motored devices, the rickshaws, bicycle or foot. They make you feel guilty riding in them. Which is odd. One should really feel guilty driving alone a large engine car, no?</div>
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On my last day, I went to visit a group in a slum in Howrah, which is the twin city of Kolkata. Between the two is the Gange river. Nothing special. <br />
But it rained the whole night and previous day. The streets were 30 cm under water, and in the slum, a good 40 to 50 cm. Way above my knee. The car could not go through, so we jumped and hired a bicycle rickshaw to do the last 500m of our journey.<br />
I rolled my trousers up, thanked Bata for my Fillies and met the group. We could not do much because of the rain and the fact that everything was underwater, but I would not have liked to have missed our meeting. I came back drenched with a practical understanding of what Monsoon is all about when you live under a plastic sheet in an informal settlement. Not pleasant.<br />
I have been impressed to see the local Councillor coming with huge pots of food around midday, to feed those that could not cook because of the floods. My colleagues were not that impressed, it was a normal service during the rain. <br />
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Raining outside, so I stopped a bit longer at a spice and tea shop. <br />
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My family was very concerned about me going to Kolkata. More so than anywhere else I have been to.<br />
They have never been in India. Their image of the city is crafted by books such as Shantaram, La cité de la Joie, or infos coming from the news. So for them Kolkata is Calcutta: a massive chaos with extreme poverty (<u><i>really</i> </u>extreme), so many people that life does not count: people are dying on the street (if they are not rescued by Mother Theresa's posse) ... I was to go deeper than the heart of darkness<i>, </i>and they were fully getting geared to rescue me before I turned into Kurtz.<br />
I am immensely grateful to know that my family has my back, it is very comforting.<br />
In a certain way, I also kinda had high expectations: years in a catholic school crafted a concept of charity in which mother Theresa is in the top five saint. Which she is. What I mean is that the definition of slums and misery come from what we were reading and watching about Calcutta then. And now, I was going there. <br />
But they were wrong. It is great to have stereotypes crashing down. Kolkata is a sensational place. A bit crowded (but I've seen more) but so versatile! I was most impressed with what I saw and the people I met. I met people moving from a life on the dump-site to another profession, girls from an informal settlement who are turning into rugby champions, commercial sex workers looking for a better education for their kids, transgender dancers rehearsing, brick kiln workers improving their school,... not the kind of crowd that is invited to Davos, but good people in an unpleasant situation, working their way out.<br />
For sure, poverty is in your face, but you can walk past homeless people in any city without seeing them, or ignore street kids begging. One is not touched the same way by every child, disabled, excluded person. Sometime you see something or someone that will talk straight to your soul, and leave an important impression.<br />
But not always.<br />
If I would always compare what people have, how they live with how I live, I will turn crazy, revolted, uncomfortable. I will only compare, see the differences where there are mostly similarities. It is difficult to really meet someone with a set of standards. In order to share a conversation, one need to start by listening and accepting other realities. Because in the end, we all seek to laugh, learn and feel happy. And that can happen with anybody really. <br />
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Beautiful jewel beetle found crawling out of the mud in a brick kiln. Every year there are millions of people moving to work in that industry. A lot of families with kids. <br />
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fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-25996870053006366872015-09-18T12:00:00.001+02:002015-09-18T12:00:24.503+02:00Beautiful People in Nepal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the great thing about my job is that it brings me to places full of extraordinary people. </div>
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In July I got to go to Nepal to work on the child protection response of <a href="https://www.goalglobal.org/" target="_blank">Goal</a> and its partner, the <a href="http://umbrellanepal.org/" target="_blank">Umbrella Foundation</a>. </div>
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Kathmandu in the rain. the signs of the earthquake are obvious everywhere, piles of bricks, bamboos and metal pillars holding cracked buildings. Lots of scars. Many people whose life now has a before and an after moment. Through the rumble and stories, there is the incredible beauty of people's humanity, the story of their love and care for their family and their community. </div>
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Makeshift camps and plastic tents are spread all over, in luxurious hotel grounds, on the lawn of the palace, on the banks of the river, between houses... and through and through the will to get going, back to normal. </div>
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I mainly got to spend time in Nuwakot region, in the hills a couple of hours away from Kathmandu. I was hosted with Umbrella's team there. The team is composed of a dynamic group of youngsters with a fricking enormous <i>vontade</i> to do something and make life after the earthquake as good as possible.<br />
Their job is not easy, they all went through the two shakes, some lost their house, or a family member.<br />
All saw something deep crumble.<br />
Then they stood up. Some of the guys responded immediately, not sleeping or caring for themselves for days, solely focused in helping others.<br />
Now, months after the quake, they are still there. They go to places that are extremely hard to reach, walking for hours and days on mountain slopes, facing the real danger of mountain slides, for the ground moved and the rains are making it even more unstable. They go to remote villages to check on people, the state of the schools, orphans, how people survive... They are the real life souls who, collectively, enable the government's emergency response to reach out everywhere, as quickly as possible and in the best way as possible. Natural disasters today are killing five time less than a hundred years ago, thanks to professional responses, preparedness and the improved possibility we now have to bring assistance and organize support.<br />
These youngsters are employed by Umbrella, to implement the government strategies, paid by a UNICEF fund raised all over the world, and their interventions is similar to the one of hundreds of other volunteers involved in dozen other organizations. Pretty impressive. <br />
Aside from working in the villages, at household levels, they also set up and support Child Friendly Spaces. CFS are places, tents really, set up in camps or in neighborhoods when normality stops, to offer children activities, possibility to talk, to address protection issues, to get back to a routine...<br />
Child protection organizations have shown all over the world that people, communities and families are really needing CFS or education facilities in places where normality disappeared. They even value it more than health, hygiene and sanitation facilities. School and play-places bring back a sense of normality, a routine that is extremely important. It calms and makes people feel better.<br />
It gives perspectives.<br />
I get to meet the people that are working in creating perpectives when things are bad. <br />
How cool is that? <br />
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In a CFS we play, we draw, we talk and learn. Teachers and assistants are caring for the kids every day. Umbrella is assisting them with ideas for activities, and ways to detect when a kid is struggling, and how to respond to stress or abuse. For that job their team is made of seasoned social workers but also teenagers -some with difficult backgrounds- and... an Irish women! Aideen is a math teacher in Khazakstan who travels by taxi and takes her holidays to train youngsters without families to help kids smiling in camps in Nepal. She is beautiful. Seems that umbrella is successful in gathering inspiring people, working with professionalism and passion. Respect to all the Caroline, Tsewang, RajKumar, and the others. </div>
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First trip for me to Sierra Leone, always special to go somewhere for the first time. <br />
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It might have been the best thing that happenned: Lacking cafeine, my brain started working, looking for solution to get access to the drug. It so happen that I have been watching MacGuyver when it was the hottest serie in the universe, and learned my lesson. I was building a cellphone with my knife and the beer I was sipping, in order to call my wife and have her send me a replacement plunger. Half way through the screen modulation, I realized that the diameter of the plunger and of the can were exactly the same. Bingo! Did not have to build the phone. </div>
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On independence day (27th of april), I went for a night in the forrest, a stone throw away from freetown. <a href="http://www.tacugama.com/" target="_blank">Tacugama</a> is a chimpanzee sanctuary, fostering orphaned chimps and trying to get them to socialize and get prepared to go back in the wild. </div>
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I guess I have to put a line or two about Ebola, since Sierra Leone unfortunatly is synonymous to the disease and everyone I met before/ there/ after going to SL is speaking about it. Yes, SL is much more than a virus, it has spectacular sceneries, amazing people and most stunning beaches. No, I did not catch it. Yes, it is still around. <br />
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one of the most gruesome disease: you catch it by close contact - by
people you love and who love you- then, literally, you implose. If you get
to an emergency treatment centre you'll be cared by people in astronaut
suits and if you make it odds are that family members did not have your
chance, and your friends and community will look at you warily. Not the
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Today the epidemic is still
not finished, more than 3000 people died from it, but the impact is yet
to be felt. One Ebola year and the health system is on its knees, staff
died, people don't trust health posts so attendance dropped for
malaria, birth and every other issues, the economic development stalled,
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The great thing about my line of work is that I get to meet admirable
human beings. And many who left the comfort of their home and family to
take the risk and respond to a very mortal disease. I got to meet fellow
Zimbabweans, staks of kenyans, ethiopians, sudanese, congolese,
europeans, americans... people from all over. Among them, a lot of
sierra leonians who migrated to flee the war, got a life,
jobs and family in europe or the states and dropped everything to come
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<span style="color: black;">Twala is a great place to go out for a pic-nic with kids, small orphaned animals (from squirrel to lions), a dam where to fish, and many friendly furry, scaly and feathery things roaming around, for the delight of the little ones. Great opportunity as well to follow some of them, outside bars. Gives a sense of wilderness. </span></div>
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<br />fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-48851147872980907962015-03-26T21:59:00.000+02:002015-03-26T22:01:45.045+02:00Ireland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New job; induction time in Dun Loaghaire (to pronounce Don Leerie -don't ask, just say it like that), on the outskirds of Dublin. I had some hours to spend in the city, walking around and stopping for a pint or two. It's really a beautiful place and the people are very friendly. Got offered a couple of Guinness whilst sketching people at the counter. Good vibes. </div>
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I got to visit the Guinness storehouse and graduated as a perfect Guinness pourer. Haven't added that skill on my CV yet. I need to update it as soon as possible, one never know really what recruiters are after these days. </div>
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I had the opportunity to travel earlier this month. The plane ride took me from Harare to Addis, to Rome, to Madrid, to Almeria and finally to Dublin. </div>
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In February I had the opportunity to do the evaluation of one of Handicap International's project in Mozambique, about the inclusion of people with disabilities in the education system.<br />
I got to spend some time with incredible people and hear their stories, hear their motivations, dreams.<br />
People with disability are badly discriminated in Mozambique: lack of access, constant insults, they are made responsible for their disability, are frequently abused and often hidden and locked at home.<br />
Handicap's team, with the government are changing that attitude.<br />
They go door to door, chat with the people, give them motivation, strength and possibilities. Bring people to school or literacy classes, have access to welfare services, health care or counselling.<br />
All the things that maybe are economically irrelevant, and certainly not priorities or profit making. They actually cost money. And are not sustainable as such. Economically.<br />
But what a difference it makes in terms of happinness, of community building, of relationships and self esteem.<br />
Best investment ever. <br />
They make life better. And that is priceless. <br />
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Lady Carlota, a childhood spend in an institution, now living with her toddler and another youth she met in the institution. He was probably not looking good enough for his family who preferred to dump him. She is his family now, he is hers. </div>
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She is just amazing, a chatty smile full of good spirit and excellent fun. She introduced me to the people she met in her community, the people she is visiting and their families. She know each one, their stories, their dreams, their frustrations and joys. </div>
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I have met others like her, just could not sketch them, Maria, Bernardo, Esmeralda, David, Samito, Innocencia, etc. etc. </div>
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A couple of sketches done in a literacy class. The teacher earns 20 usd/month (a fifth of the minimum wage). They are in charge of the shortfalls of the formal education system. In their class: the drop out kids, illiterate adults and people with disability (mental, sensorial and physical).<br />
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I am always amazed that in the worst situations, one always find the
greatest bits of humanity. It is truely in the worst that one can
experience and live beauty.<br />
The people working with street kids, abused
children, those who lost everything,... are amazing. They are showing so
much hope, and really believe in the goodness of humankind, its
capacity to do better, to expand boundaries and go beyond differences. I am blessed to meet so many of them with my job. You see nightmares made real, and meet the most beautiful people. <br />
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<br />fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-61841456426368556382015-03-08T12:32:00.001+02:002015-03-08T12:32:48.921+02:00Colour Speke: the video!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="_58cl">That is what my wife is up to when she wakes up in the morning: she make things more beautiful than they were, challenge certainties, build bridges and transform places and their peoples.</span><br />
<span class="_58cl">The vid is mostly about the painting of the street. The project also build and set up benches, selective bins, solar lightings, photoluminescent glow paint and rehabilitated gardens, putting huge animal sculpture in which plants are growing.</span><br />
<span class="_58cl">If ever in Harare, go to town, see it for yourself. </span><br />
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I was checking last month some of the portraits I did of the kids these last years and realized how much they have changed and grown. So had to do dem face dem again. </div>
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On the other page, they wrote and drew things that they want to do this year, or that they like. I like having them participating in the books. My folks always made elaborate photoalbums keeping memories of our daily life the way a journal does. I don't really do photos. I feel that the thousands of digital pics made by cellphones, cameras, are staying hidden in a machine. I like to spend time opening something and having to tell a story, not just zapping. It is about the time spend drawing, the time spend opening and sharing. </div>
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The kids love to draw on the pages of the sketchbook, and many are filled with their impressions of the holidays, chameleons, dragons, hearts and <i>I Love You</i> graffittis. I love to have them in these pages, it makes it real. </div>
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<br />fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-48422466000733066822015-01-13T12:44:00.000+02:002015-01-13T12:44:41.826+02:00Trees from the Botanical Garden<br />
Catching up on sketches done but not posted. Here a serie
of trees from the botanical garden. In novembre I participated to an Art
of Hosting workshop, and took the 20 minutes prior to the start of the
day to quickly sketch a tree. It was a great way to be present in the
place, and ready for the day.<br />
Unfortunatly, I have no clue about the type of tree/ specie. Many of the name tags the garden had are long gone.<br />
The garden remains splendid. <br />
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<br />fredasketchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797720962924640204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7830365673882154755.post-18394983927544429542015-01-13T12:38:00.001+02:002015-01-13T12:38:33.213+02:00bits and bits, skies and crawlers<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Some insects bits from my sketchbook, the fortunate ones that have been
picked up un the garden, or falling on me or one of the kids. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The big one, the armoured ground cricket, is a regular guest of ours
when in Inhassoro (Mozambique), my daughter use to call it a whassopper, so the
name stuck. They are big and totally harmless. Big enough to feel it when they
fall on you in the middle of the night. Unpleasant experience. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My son loves wildlife, creepy crawlies and nature, </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My daughter loves my drawings</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My son collects the creepy crawlies for me to sketch them. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My wife cannot share the office with me following a running beetle. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Between my wife and my kids + beetles, tough choice. </span></div>
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What on earth is that is the title of a book for kids written by Sarah Savory I am illustrating. I just finished the last page yesterday, and here is a sneak preview of one of them. </div>
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The story is about a pangolin (these weird creatures eating ants, full of scales and walking on their hind legs), one of the most endangered species IN THE WORLD. </div>
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The book should come out this year, but the process started mid 2014. My wife then bumped into Sarah, at the market, buying tomatoes, bread and most probably Winkey's honey, I don't remember exactly but it does not matter at all either. In the conversation Sarah told her she wrote a book for children and is looking for someone to illustrate it, Lou told her that I was an illustrator and the one she needed. </div>
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Small lie, big trust and best intentions. I had to say Yebo! I send her some sketches of an animal I had no idea what it looked like (thanks google), pimping it to look handsome. I knew that she was passionate about it. It was a bit like having to draw a portrait of someone else's love, only relying on google pictures. It is extremely difficult with google to be sure if the pangolins are actually male or female, central african, southern african or asian. Then again, Love is blind and Sarah is not fussy about their looks, gender or specie. Lucky me. </div>
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She liked it. And she trusted me too. </div>
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Next step for me was to meet one of these weird creature, and I met Marimba, in the Wildlife sanctuary. </div>
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The blind date was set. Although we were a bit awkwards at first, we played the game, walked in the bush together, got personnal: I loved her scales in the sun, she played hide and seek in the tall grass with me, we shared ants and at the end she even showed her belly button as I was lying beside her. Now that is intimacy!</div>
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Looking at a pangolin belly should be on any sensible person's bucket list by the way. </div>
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I was amazing to follow the pangolin for a couple of hours, they are so bizarre. </div>
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From there, I actually had to do something I accepted doing but never really did before. It was quite exciting, really, to see the book come alive, discuss with sarah about colours, characters, etc. </div>
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Really, really cool. </div>
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All that to say that I am happy and thankfull for the trust and really want to see the book printed.<br />
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