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  • Day 12~ March 12th~ Egypt

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    We create art inspired by what we see around us, what touches us, what we live with… The children at valley of the nobles on the west bank of the nile near Luxor carry around dolls that they sell to tourists for a fraction of an Egyptian pound. The strangest thing about these dolls is…

  • Day 11~ March 11th~ Egypt

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      Sometimes the now, the moment, the present, must take precedence over the old, the past, the gone… We were at the valley of the Nobles, an area of stone cut tombs dedicated to the nobles and high officials of ancient Egypt on the west bank of the Nile, and near the entrance to the…

  • Day 10~ March 10th~ Egypt

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    When ‘joy’ is able to attend you, life takes on a brilliant glow… Imagine these simple moments of connection, when meeting some stranger’s eyes can cause you and them both to overflow with joy, with a contentment and a knowing that all is well and a great unexplainable happiness is present at the thought of…

  • Day 9~ March 9th~ Egypt

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    We rode camels into the south of Egypt and there we met the Nubians. Nubia, the desert region between southern Egypt and northern Sudan, along the Nile river and home of the Noba people, is where I met this beautiful woman. A stark contrast to the almost inhuman and eerie remains of ancient Egypt, the…

  • Day 8~ March 8th~ Egypt

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      The journey to Egypt was more a journey of feelings, sensing and of connection than that of collecting brain information. There were places and things in Egypt that let me ‘feel’ so much more than others. One of these beacons was the tomb of Tutankhamun. The son of Akhenaten, king at age 9, reformer…

  • Day 7~ March 7th~ Egypt

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    Like so many other developing countries, many children in Egypt have to work to make a living. On my journey to Egypt I met and communicated with so many children and for some reason, it is these encounters that stayed alive in me till today. Children’s eyes can tell it how it is, the truth.…

  • Day 6~ March 6th~ Egypt

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    There is something so entirely remarkable about the statues and the art you see from ancient Egypt. Putting aside any feelings of eeriness and discomfort, the art feels somehow, yes, alive. It radiates, it vibrates, it holds your gaze, it stirs deeply… And after doing all of that, it makes you think, question, dwell and…

  • Day 5~ March 5th~ Egypt

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    If you go to meet something for the first time and you take your prejudgment about it with you, how will you ever be able to connect with its truth? There is so much that is written about ancient Egypt. The libraries are full, the internet is flooded, university texts, endless research material, theories ranging…

  • Day 3~ March 3rd~ Egypt

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    While searching and researching inside the realms of Ancient Egypt, the unseen comes into focus as the seen gradually gets blurred… The ancient Egyptians believed that each person hosted in themselves a double, an electrical entity that ushered and guided them towards their true destiny. They called it the Ka. Their Ka was to live…

  • Day 2~ March 2nd~ Egypt

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    I went to Egypt with hundreds of questions and came back with thousands. Egypt lives in children’s imaginations as the world of fantasy, of pharaohs, of mummies, of pyramids, of kings, of power, of ankhs, and I am yet to meet a child who hears about Egypt without falling prey to its enchantment. Ancient Egypt…