What an amazing day! Today was what I naively envisioned this entire trip would be, and is something I cynically wrote off as utterly impossible about a week ago. I met this artist named Akirash, and we connected like two artists. I mean, it worked just like my flowery spiel said it was going to: [...]
ghana 3, brazil 1
Just remeber, you heard it at A.A. Video, Nima, Accra, Ghana first!
ghana photos
Here is a link to a slide show of some Photos from Ghana that haven’t made it into any blog posts yet. If you’re looking to link to a specific photo, then have a browse here.
accra scrap market
‘ Today, Kwame took me to the Accra Timberyard and Scrap Metal Market. It was an amazing cacaphony of banging and sparking, shards of rusted metal, slivers of shiny tins, chain-links the size of my head, huge hunks of timber, and machinery I trust Tucker would remember his teachers in London speaking of. You just [...]
w.a.w.a.
I’d forgotten how Murphy’s Law rules West Africa with an unrelenting, almost dizzying attention to detail. My week started in true happy-go-lucky West Africa fashion: I walk over to the school to speak with the head teacher to see if they’d be interested in organizing any animation/ story-telling workshops over the next two weeks, and [...]
kwame’s bench
I met a Ghanaian furniture-maker named Kwame last week. He studied Industrial Design at Chelsea, and has moved back to settle in his home-town of Accra. He uses wood he says most Ghanaians consider cast-offs – mottled, split, featured wood – and uses simple joints to creature bold and gorgeous stuff. He says he started [...]
carol bove
hippie era bookshelves