Back to normal in Suame and did a model of mani wata🐬❤️ it's a African mermaid/sarene, a water spirit in popular folk belief among west n central Africa. 'Yaa sit down there' then my master carefully started adding brown highlights on her hair as my dark warm hair waves. He referred snakes to exhibition catalogue which also featured his work, 'Mami Wata: Arts for Warer Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas' edited by Henry John Drewel (Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008). Consentino, Drewel's long time friend, wrote contribution in it 'Drewel was cast a spell by her n devoted his life to travel from India Ocean to Caribbean Sea to look for her traits.' #mamiwata #waterspirit #snake #popularart #africanart #drewel #suame #kumasi #ghana #fish #mermaid #sarene クマシ生活。師匠にそこに座れといわれ突然モデルをすることに。私の髪を見ながら丹念に塗り込んでいく。マミワタは、西から中央アフリカの海岸沿いの地域で信仰され、偶像やお社で崇拝されたり、絵や壁画に描かれたりする水の精霊です。西では主に呪術、中央では性やお金の象徴として登場。カリブ海からインドまで海を伝って人々を魅了するアフリカ版人魚。有名な展示カタログで編者さんが旧友に「こいつはマミワタにヤられてカリブ海からインド洋の島々、アフリカ大陸を人生かけて彷徨った」書かれててウケた。 (at Suame Magazine)