Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Hamadoun issabre's hero

Few years ago, when Mali was a respected religious country, our idols were big religious or truthful politicians. Nowadays, a perfect Malian hero needs to have some special characteristics and reunite those values from people that Malians extol and respect, values which are not always exemplars. First of all a Malian hero needs to have the knowledge. Malians venerate ancient because, someone who lives more than you usually know more things than you do. So the wrinkles on the hero represent his advanced age, consequently his knowledge. The most important values for Malian are not the intellectual aspects .The hero needs to live in ease and show it by, for example wearing jewelries such as huge watches, and other useless accessories ,possessing expensive cars, wearing flashing clothes in order to be looked even if its looks ridicules. Soccer and music are mainly the activities that can make you become famous in mali. As a matter of fact, Soccer is as important as religion for several Malians, so their hero needs to have this characteristic the balls for soccer and the radios for music. A hero usualy has a past very different from his present life.So the photomontage is separated into two parts.the left one,his past,and the right one,his present.As you can mention it ,soccer and music are present in both side. On the left part ,there is a modest dwelling.It looks calm but you can see a "CRASH" in it. A hero has necessary people who don’t like him so this represent people who looks friendly but,in reality, blame him.On the right, there is a luxery house but you can notice a hand carrying a heavy charge on a little stick.that represent how hard is his job.The last thing is that ,a hero is usually shared between two things. sometimes between his past and his present or between other things:the Cartesian dilema.the gas meter shows this he's got to make between the Full life and the Empty one.But generally,it is not that easy...

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