I especially liked how the Talitubby Enforcers were illiterate, and easily duped.
To: COBOL2Java; Orual; aculeus; Artist; Joan_of_Argghh!
Great story.
2 posted on
01/02/2002 11:47:18 AM PST by
dighton
To: COBOL2Java
These people are outright animals living in their own dark ages.
To: COBOL2Java; dighton; aculeus
Brave man. Great story.
4 posted on
01/02/2002 11:55:01 AM PST by
Orual
To: COBOL2Java
Working alone in a cold room in the gallery, hiding when Taliban officials would happen in, Asefi carefully painted over people, cows, donkeys, birds and other animals. He matched the background colors perfectly; a riverbank filled with grazing cattle was made to look empty when he applied a watercolor mask. He worked on a few of his own paintings, although at least 26 of his had already been stolen or destroyed.
The Western/American/human spirit is alive and well in Afghanistan.
To: COBOL2Java
I saw a bit about this on the news... Watercolor masks on oil paintings. Utterly ingenious! That Asefi guy deserves a lot of credit.
7 posted on
01/02/2002 12:55:46 PM PST by
Sloth
To: COBOL2Java
It always amazes me that when people of courage are oppressed, that hidden reserves of ingenuity and invention are somehow unleashed... amazing story. Thanks for posting it.
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