COME TO MY VILLAGE

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Sizes are (18 x 24 inches) (price)
Medium of painting [oil on board]

COME TO MY VILLAGE (1977) To the bottom

In searching the backroads of the Caribbean, Brazil, Mexico, Africa and the U.S.A., Clark has learned to observe the women, not only for the obvious, but for clues about the culture of each state. In Puerto Rico, a mother explained that a merchant thought to have babies for sale was actually selling bananas.

The mother of a Ga family in Accra, Ghana cooked traditional food for Clark and his son. She spoke no English and sent her husband to the table to see that they ate the meal. He explained that his wife would feel bad if they didn't show appreciation. Sometime later Clark went to the home again with her husband. In the early evening outside the house when she saw Clark, she let out a shriek of joy, embraced him, and two shadows boogied in the dust around the yard!

A meeting with an Ashanti Paramount Chief of Essemja, Ghana had been arranged by a young lady who lived there with her niece in Kumasi. Clark would not have remembered the aunt, but when he walked into the compound with her niece she said "Hello." Then the two women prepared lunch for him in her modest, cluttered room.

In audience with the Chief, Clark was aware that many group rules were broken, including not using his linguist and allowing the niece to sit in on the dialogue for Clark's benefit. Clark and the niece took the last bus back to Kumasi.; packed in so tight that their feet didn't touch the floor. As that chariot rocked and rolled (like Mother Africa's womb) rocketing past the vehicles under the blinking sky eyes, the niece screamed "Are you all right!" We were all right with nature and the universe!

The Yoruba child receives basic education on his mother's back. The Clark painting was inspired by the work of an unknown photographer. The young mother invites you to "Come to my Village and we will learn about each other."

(framed work looks like this!)

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