Any moment now, there will be a call to board the upcoming flight from Paris to Libreville. I am traveling to Gabon, in central west Africa as a cultural envoy through the United States Arts Envoy program. I’ll be spending the week working with local Gabonese artists and visiting schools. It will include painting workshops and a presentation of works at the US embassy in Libreville. The theme of the program is “The Wonders Around Us,” inspired by the beautiful rainforests and coastal landscape in Gabon.
I was asked to prepare an image for this event with this theme in mind. The framework for the image was wide open and having never been to Gabon before I suggested a range of sketches initially to see what might work best.
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