Showing posts with label Kisangani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kisangani. Show all posts

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Boyoma la Belle

There is no forest portrayed here, but there should be. The hills don't exist, they are a few strokes of the brush. Reality has no fields that are not in a small clearing in the forest invisible to any road.
Yet, for all that, this represents in my head the road to that part of Kisangani in the Congo where I lived.

 
Painted ten years after I left -- a sketch in paint -- the trees urban, the rest imagination. Is that allowed?

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