Awoke in Bordeaux to drizzling rain and the street cleaners. Brilliant piece of kit, with the power hose man forcing the gutter debris into the road for the sweeper to collect, even from behind the parked cars. Cool.
Taking refuge from the wet stuff in La MECA
we were welcomed by a Dragon, not exactly as cuddly as the Welsh Dragon it has to be said, to visit a rather unusual exhibition
'Aita, Poetic Fragments of a Moroccan Scene'.
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| Wedding Fatima Hassan Rl Farou |
'The thirty artists featured in the exhibition highlight the incredible inventiveness of oral traditions, an art of storytelling and self-telling that has been honed as a tool of emancipation and struggle'.
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| Women on the Balcony (1977 - oil on canvas) Chaibia Talai 1929-2004 |
I found this one quite special.
'Listen! Don't forget that I'm a peasant...but that's not all. I did unusual things. I made flower crowns and put them on my head. People called me crazy. They thought I was weird, but that didn't stop me from covering myself with flowers. Understand that, it's important. Don't be afraid to be weird. '
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| The Fisncee's Plateau Sara Ouhaddpu |
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| Raw Body Souksina Mobile |
Just a sample of the artists work on display, from oil painting to embroidery.
On the walk 'home' passed a Catholic Church with a difference.
What an interesting day we had!
