maandag 17 september 2018

woensdag 1 juni 2016

Beyrut 💚 بيروت


When the living rot on the bodies of the dead
When the combatants’ teeth become knives
When words lose their meaning and become arsenic
When the aggressors’ nails become claws
When old friends hurry to join the carnage
When the victors’ eyes become live shells
When clergymen pick up the hammer and crucify
When officials open the door to the enemy
When the mountain peoples’ feet weigh like elephants
When roses grow only in cemeteries
When they eat the Palestinian’s liver before he’s even dead
When the sun itself has no other purpose than being a shroud

the human tide moves on . . .
Etel Adnan, “XXXIX” from The Arab Apocalypse.

woensdag 18 januari 2012

Marind- Anim and Ngass people

  Marind Anim Dema Ornaments (Mayo Cult)


    
Ngass or Angas people Benue-Plateau State of Nigeria, the city of Jos was the capital.

woensdag 5 augustus 2009

l’exposition coloniale d’Amsterdam en 1883


World fair, the colonial exhibition of Amsterdam in 1883.
On this picture we see the 13 year old Aucan boy Johannes Kojo from Paramaribo. He acted as a drummer on display in a circus tent on the Museumplein Amsterdam with 28 other inhabitants of Suriname.