Launch of Gondartindia sales
2020, a very strange year, where projects change from day to day, for everyone and everywhere on the planet…
… Where we are suddenly confronted with the unexpected, tensions and doubts, with no other options than those of adapting, hoping and showing patience.
… Tightrope walkers struggling to balance gond painting on a precarious rope.
Slowing down our frenetic pace however had this positive point, that of appreciating each moment present on this Earth… And at least, our planet itself and the natural world will have found time to breathe there after so many years of abuse.
I was in India at the beginning of this year, when the Covid began its dizzying rise, becoming the star of the media in record time. But before being repatriated (with the extraordinary help of the embassies of Ireland and Belgium), I had had the chance to spend time with my friends from Madhya Pradesh and the Gond tribal community of artists…
Link to article on website from Allihies to Patangarh, 2019
Richie, my husband and best friend, accompanied me this time, and just like me last year, he quickly fell in love with Gond village.
Our project was still vague, but we were determined to find a way to provide support to the villagers to help them maintain their lifestyle and their tribal culture. Richie had given himself the mission of capturing photos and films, for the visual support of our future website.
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