ATELIER INTERNATIONAL ART GROUP as Carole Jones          

LAND OF THE NOMADS

RETROSPECTIVE TO ASSIST IN THE VANISHING AFRICA

 by John Mubiru

Paintings:  Land of Nomads

In Eastern and Central Africa Activist the record keepers charted major events and ceremonies as birth, entry into manhood or womanhood, weather, harvest and death.  In most cases, the art read into and portrayed these events into representation of paintings and sculpture which were place onto buildings and houses, palaces or chieftain Kraals.  

These lands are changing now and so is the art.  Often it represents the bad times that were sad and since my departure, I seem to miss the good times. I never really paid much attention to these good memories yet they are the source of my inspiration. 

Through my work I try to portray a people rich in color, culture and tradition.  When I visit these lands I see fewer and fewer people donning traditional regalia or attending the ceremonies. 

I have always hoped that my work will keep events, pastimes and ceremonies of a people in transition to not forget where we were a derivative of the past.  To give those who were born in a later time a glimpse into the lives of a people who had a way of life that is changing “A VANISHING AFRICA”.   This exhibition is dedicated to this glimpse.

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