Mela is the name that Buddhists attribute to the prayer cord used during prayer in many religions and countries. In this case, we are talking about an old woman in the high mountains of the Zanskar Valley in India, near the Tibetan border.
She proudly showed me her prayer necklace.
This work has been shown in the Netherlands…
Art on canvas looks great on any wall. It truly comes into its own with paintings featuring sharp brushstrokes.
Real encounters with people all over the world have attracted me from childhood. Traveling uninhibitedly unknown countries and continents and making contact with their residents. Those contacts with people in other parts of the world have taught me that the basic emotions of all people are the same. Unknown makes unloved? No, unknown makes me 'curious' about 'that other', the unknown. Establishing contact with people whose language I often do not speak…
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