Un voyage en Afrique. Mother visits son in Zimbabwe.
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A couple of weeks ago, I went for quick visit to Europe. It was a bit spur of the moment. I was getting stir-crazy here in Yaounde. Two of my delegates here had the great Idea to get married in Barcelona and we had a day off anyway which made most people...
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And here are the last pictures of him when we were at the high speed train station in Montchanin. We hugely enjoyed having him here and we miss him already. The ride to Paris:
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It was only natural during a week when we worked and talked of stone every day, that someone should mention the great dry-stone walls that litter the hill between St Clement and the next door village of Rains. So on Cosy's last morning in France we went...
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And so to the final day of our experience with Shona Sculpture. With the pieces ready we lit the b.b.q. not to grill our lunch, that came later, but to heat the stone near the fire. Every one of us was a bit aprehensive about the stone cracking in the...
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Day 4 and we are knee-deep in rasps and sandpaper except of course for Cosmas who's already there for the second time round, this time working on a little masterpiece. After thunderstorms during the night, our workplace was freshly washed of the stone...
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Halfway through our workshop and Cosmas tackled a challenge that Corentin had brought him: Try to work with the local stone from our corner of Burgundy! It's a limestone that varies in hardness and is very friable. It chips and splitners and often contains...
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Day two and things are definitely emerging from the stone. Sometimes it may not quite be what was originally intended but...Work is also slower now. After the first day of knocking awai big junks of stone we are now down to the smaller chisels and rasps....
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Another brilliantly sunny and hot day and the workshop has started. Annie, Regula, Corentin, Julien and I under Cosmas' guidance are finding how to work with Serpentine and after a day things are emerging from the stone. A lion here, a bird or a geometric...
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Brilliant hot day. Summer is here and Cosmas and I have been polishing up the pieces in my garden. They look brilliant and alive again and the garden is lush and full of flowers - at least one good thing to the months of rain...
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From Paris to southern Burgundy - 350KM or and hour and ten minutes in the high speed train, TGV. Cosmas and I arrived in Saint Clement on Friday evening after having missed the early afternoon train because I had ill adjusted my watch... Don't ask! Anyway...
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