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Chukua muda kidogo Painting

Gloria Bonfante

Kenya

Painting, Paint on Canvas

Size: 23.6 W x 31.5 H x 1.2 D in

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Originally listed for $1,889

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

“Chukua muda kidogo” in the Kiswahili language means “Take a moment”. To anyone, in everyday life, it happens not to realize the time that passes, the continuous routine, or the pounding stress of everyday life. A routine that you feel as a duty and not as a pleasure. You find yourself with days gone by without having lived them even for a moment, without a memory, without a small sensation of pleasure. Take a moment. Perhaps it is wrong to smoke a cigarette, but the charm of the gesture, the magic of a ritual, give the idea of how much a moment can be enough to break the monotony and look around. A moment to appreciate and enjoy many things that are around you and you never see. Take a moment and look for a little thing: a flower, a color, a ray of sunshine or a cloud, a painting… you will surely find something to appreciate. Also, look in this gaze for that moment that makes you appreciate a little beauty that life offers you.

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Painting:

Paint on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

23.6 W x 31.5 H x 1.2 D in

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The passion for drawing, painting, and to a small extent sculpture, have always been in me. Pencil and colors have always been my favorite games. Fate did not lead me to develop the possibilities that my natural gifts offered me. However, they have remained in me and I believe that I cannot express myself better than with a brush in my hand. I believe that it is not only studies and courses that make an artist, but his intense passion and commitment to create something that comes from within and is realized on a canvas. In the early part of my life, I made paintings in various techniques, mostly pencils, charcoals, and watercolors. The processing of clay and various decorative techniques in the years '90/2000 has given me much satisfaction. Someone says that there is no house in my city that does not have a small work of mine. In the '10s, however, I abandoned my artistic passion for a job that I adore and that fills my life and has become my second great passion, Africa. In fact, at the age of fifty, I moved from Italy to Kenya. The realization of a Lodge took me full of feelings, passion, and time. Now, the sad event of a worldwide pandemic has given me many worries but also a lot of free time. While waiting for the return to a normal and full working life, I rediscovered my first old passion, painting. In contact with amazing nature, with a fascinating and evocative culture, I try to convey Africa that I love the most. I have the presumption of wanting to excite those who look at one of my paintings and I hope to be able to convey something that goes beyond the moment of a glance but transmits a touch in the soul of those who appreciates my work.

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