Homemade Bull (exterior)
Homemade Bull (interior)
Trauma Painting
Trauma Painting
Trauma Painting
Fanon
Fanon (detail)
Chibi House (exterior)
Chibi House (interior)
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"The memory of the pre-colonial period is still very much alive in the villages. Mothers still hum to their children the songs which accompanied the warriors as they set off to fight the colonizer. At the age of twelve or thirteen the young villagers know by heart the names of the elders who took part in the last revolt, and the dreams in the douars and villages are not those of the children in the cities dreaming of luxury goods or passing their exams but dreams of identification with such and such a hero whose heroic death still brings tears to their eyes."
An excerpt from “Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity” from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.