I Might Have Gone to Zaire
I Might Have Gone to Zaire, egg tempera on panel, 30.5 x 30 cm, May 2025
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams
We went to Belgium not long ago to see our friend from Oxford days. Yves grew up in the Belgian Congo and his house is full of treasures from his childhood with some collectables acquired over time. I whizzed around with my camera and was gifted some postcards that had been his sister’s.
I might have gone to Zaire because originally that is where I was supposed to go with the Peace Corps. Zaire=Belgian Congo. Instead Mbuti Sese Seko cancelled our visas and we lived in limbo in Philadelphia and after I went to Palo Alto until we were reassigned, three months later. Alison went to Sri Lanka where she met Mike and I went to the Kenya where I met Patrick. That was never the intention, but here we are all those years later.
I guess this is an altar to Africa where I saw my first giraffe — in a field in Naivasha, where the snakes lived, where I worshiped the landscape and drew whenever I could.
Yves bought me the bronze leopard from the flea market in Brussels. We saw many medieval paintings while visiting and the postcard conjures that.
I Might Have Gone to Zaire, egg tempera on panel, 30.5 x 30 cm, May 2025
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams
We went to Belgium not long ago to see our friend from Oxford days. Yves grew up in the Belgian Congo and his house is full of treasures from his childhood with some collectables acquired over time. I whizzed around with my camera and was gifted some postcards that had been his sister’s.
I might have gone to Zaire because originally that is where I was supposed to go with the Peace Corps. Zaire=Belgian Congo. Instead Mbuti Sese Seko cancelled our visas and we lived in limbo in Philadelphia and after I went to Palo Alto until we were reassigned, three months later. Alison went to Sri Lanka where she met Mike and I went to the Kenya where I met Patrick. That was never the intention, but here we are all those years later.
I guess this is an altar to Africa where I saw my first giraffe — in a field in Naivasha, where the snakes lived, where I worshiped the landscape and drew whenever I could.
Yves bought me the bronze leopard from the flea market in Brussels. We saw many medieval paintings while visiting and the postcard conjures that.
I Might Have Gone to Zaire, egg tempera on panel, 30.5 x 30 cm, May 2025
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams
We went to Belgium not long ago to see our friend from Oxford days. Yves grew up in the Belgian Congo and his house is full of treasures from his childhood with some collectables acquired over time. I whizzed around with my camera and was gifted some postcards that had been his sister’s.
I might have gone to Zaire because originally that is where I was supposed to go with the Peace Corps. Zaire=Belgian Congo. Instead Mbuti Sese Seko cancelled our visas and we lived in limbo in Philadelphia and after I went to Palo Alto until we were reassigned, three months later. Alison went to Sri Lanka where she met Mike and I went to the Kenya where I met Patrick. That was never the intention, but here we are all those years later.
I guess this is an altar to Africa where I saw my first giraffe — in a field in Naivasha, where the snakes lived, where I worshiped the landscape and drew whenever I could.
Yves bought me the bronze leopard from the flea market in Brussels. We saw many medieval paintings while visiting and the postcard conjures that.