Speaking Calabash
22 x 16”, Original Woodburning with oil-based color pencil on Birch Panel
©2016 Djibril N’Doye
In many families, food is provided but most of the time the provider has the voice. For the preservation of one’s own dignity, it is better to be able to provide for one’s own self. There is a heavy price to pay being dependent. In my drawing, the calabash is the container of food. Behind it is the voiceless mother and her two daughters, living life under a male dominant society where dependence becomes heavy spiritual weakness. The calabash talks, food talks, and money talks but it shouldn’t have to be that loud. Independence is the only remedy.
- Collections: Family and Social Responsibiilty, Mother and Child