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Day 12~ March 12th~ Egypt
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…
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Day 11~ March 11th~ Egypt
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…
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Day 9~ March 9th~ Egypt
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…
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Day 8~ March 8th~ Egypt
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…
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Day 6~ March 6th~ Egypt
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…
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Day 2~ March 2nd~ Egypt
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…