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Here you will find a selection of my works inspired from the novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola. Overall there are over 60 pieces, drawn using various inspirations and textures. In these pieces storytelling, memory, and artistic heritage converge, offering a glimpse into a world both imagined and profoundly real. Below each piece is a quote from the book and the painting that inspired it.
My portrait surrounded by masks
van James Ensor
"I noticed carefully all the ghosts who came to settle the matter that many had no hands and some had no fingers, some had no feet and arms but jumped instead of walking. Some had heads without eyes and ears. It was this day I had ever seen ghosts without clothes on their bodies and they were not ashamed of their nakedness.Uncountable numbers of them stood before me and looked at me as dolls with great surprise as they had no heads or eyes. "
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"In the presence of these guests, my boss was changing me to some kinds of creatures.
First of all he changed me to a monkey, then I began to climb fruit trees and pluck fruits down for them. After that he changed me to a lion, then to a horse, to a camel, to a cow or bull with horns on its head and at last to my former form ."
Camel In Rhythmic Land
Paul Klee
"He changed me again to the form of a camel and then his sons were using me as transport to carry heavy loads."
"I was thinking how I could escape. I remembered that I had taken the juju which he would use before he could change me to any creature that he likes. So I jumped right out from the bag to the ground and without hesitation I started to run away inside the bush for my life."
Natures mortes et buste de Minotaure, la métamorphose de l'artiste
Picasso
"As they laid me down before this god, all of them danced round me three times. Then I sprang up unexpectedly with all my power away."
"And before they could come back to chase me, I was running helter-skelter in that bush for my life. I mistakenly fell into a very deep pond. But to my surprise, immediately I saw my shadow in this water that I was a cow in form I changed to a person as before."
Nymphéas bleus
Claude Monet
The Wedding Dance
Marc Chagall
"One day, a ghost friend told me to accompany him to his mother's town. I saw a very beautiful young ghostess,I told my friend that I want to marry her, and as her father was famous and prominent in that town, so he arranged the wedding day for the ghosts' next wedding day which was about nine days to come."
"I was still running away faster until I stepped into a part of the ground of this bush. But to my surprise at the same moment that I put my left foot on it, it was saying thus with a loud voice: "Don't smash me! Oh don't smash me, don't walk on me, go back to those who are chasing you to kill you, it is paining me too much as you are smashing me." can land talk like a human being, or can land feel pain if somebody smashes it?"
Composition 8
Wassily Kandinsky
Owl
Daniel Mackie
"At that moment a heavy rain came. So I looked for a safe place to shelter. I discovered a place and laid down and crept into it, not knowing it was inside the pouch of an animal. So I simply entered it and I fell asleep in it within a minute."
Bathers
Kazimir Malevich
"I discovered that it was not my own head which was on my neck, so I reported to the mother, but she simply replied-"Every head is a head and there is no head which is not suitable for any creature." So I was carrying the earthly body with the head of a ghost."
"Having crossed the river we travelled till we reached a deep valley. "
Blue dancers
Aylin Uyan
"The whole of us started to drink all kinds of ghosts' drinks, we were also dancing, drumming and singing the song of ghosts until daybreak. It was that day I saw that some of these ghosts were dancing in such a way until they cut into halves and again both these halves were also dancing until they joined together as usual."
Hennie Niemann
"I thought of nothing more than to go, because I could not sleep both day and night any more, and I was always dreaming without sleeping or without closing my eyes."
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