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Our Lady of the Cassava II
Inspired by travels in Cameroon and Chad, this oil painting is a deliberate simplification of a previous work, the colours influenced by seeing van Gogh's portraits of a woman in Arles.
When I saw this woman, with a tray on her head, I could not determine what vegetable she was selling: was it a sweet potato (that influenced my choice of colour against the yellow), a yam, a form of onion perhaps? I went with cassava, used for porridge in parts of west Africa. And I liked the word more in a title...
