Description
Hoopoe in Front of Kilimanjaro, watercolor on handmade paper
48 x 33 cm
Creation year
1972
The hoopoe is a kind of tourist that prefers to avoid the cold European winter by moving to warmer climes. This one has chosen Kilimanjaro National Park as its winter home. This fantastic little watercolor has an exciting horizontal color division: the bird and the savannah landscape form a brown-orange stripe in the foreground, while the mountain and sky form a blue-violet stripe in the upper half of the picture.
One Response
Dear Hug friends, it’s interesting that we humans also like to refer to our dear feathered companions as “locals” and not as “tourists” or “mzungu/hikers, whites”. Like the KORONGO (white stork), the HUDI HUDI has been given an onomatopoeic name in Swahili comparable to the Latin UPUPA EPOPS.