From Guido Vermeulen - Walking Works of Art

[cheryl penn]

The DreamTime.

Living in Africa means that rituals and scarring and body painting are part of our daily visuals. We see  beaded and painted Sangoma’s  nearly every day.  There are annual circumcision rituals here too.  So Guido’s work is not as strange to me as it may appear to some.

The title of Guido's envelope:

Walking Works of Art BOYS WEAR CLAN DESIGNS DURING A TEN DAY CIRCUMCISION

I received this note from Guido -

Because these three works are interrelated and come from my admiration for aboriginal culture.  I am mailing them as a whole set to you. – I am NOT to expect this every time  :-) (GUIDO!!!) 

The French reads – It must that this state of things continue.

Dance for a dead ancestor.

 

Another note - ARM – in Dutch means poor – here too, yes, arm is poor in Afrikaans – there is no escaping the ancestral roots of language either.

Thank you Guido - receiving your work - its a joy :-)

[Marie Wintzer]

It talks to me it speaks to me

[Marie Wintzer]

Very complex, it talks to me. The second one in particular. Living in countries where two or even more cultures are so extremely different and surrounding you every day, I can only imagine...