BRC Designs
2011-09-20
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The airline ticketing agents were having a fiasco trying to decide what additional fees should be charged, as our checked bag was outside any of their typical luggage guidelines. And going through customs with a fish shaped miniature coffin tends to raise a few questions as well.
We ha.....
2011-09-16
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"When you start to feel sick then you must push yourself and work harder. If you go and sit in your room you'll just feel miserable. Whenever I start to get the chills, I go to the hospital, get my shot (for malaria) and head straight back to the workshop."(as he lets out a few deep bell.....
2011-08-25
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After chicken and rice for breakfast - Eric, Elias and I make our way to the small village Gomoa Eskuma to attend the funeral of Nana Mpamaprom. The village is out in full at 8:30 in the morning to remember the life of the village's chief. We meet Ofosu, the son of Nana Mpamaprom, who ex.....
2011-08-18
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While the goat was being slaughtered, I was reminded of the old testament stories I had learned at sunday school as a child of how unblemished sheep were sacrificed to God. But is this goat being sacrificed God or to gods? Everything is very unfamiliar and a bit uncomfortable. What.....
2011-08-18
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The apprentices and Crew at Kane Kwei Workshop;from left to right: Kwasi, Nat, Ramon, Eric Adjetey Anang, Adante, Adjetui, Agbe, Cedi Anang Kwei, Shiduu(Cedi's cousin)
KANE KWEI CARPENTRY WORKSHOP
EXPERT IN ABEBUU ADEKAI
ONE GOAT
TWO FULL PIECES OF CLOTH
ONE PAIR OF SANDALS
T.....
2011-08-09
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Elias, a former senior apprentice of the Kane Kwei Workshop, leads me through long alley ways and corridors deep within the slums of Teshie. I clutch the camera hanging around my neck very firmly. I am definitely on "the other side of the tracks". We begin to approach large hordes .....
2011-08-09
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"If you die during this period it is believed that your death is a curse to the land."
-Eric Adjetey Anang
The origins of the Teshie people are from the Ga's, a tribe from Ilefe, Nigeria. Upon arrival of the Ga's there was a great famine, so it is be.....
2011-08-07
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About a year ago I was at the annual furniture society conference at MIT. There were many speakers who spoke on a wide variety of techniques and experiences. One of the speakers, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts Professor, Michael DeForrest spoke about his apprenticeship in Ghana making.....
2011-08-07
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"I don't go to church, but I believe in God. The church has just become a business; all the pastors drive their big fancy cars. My mom still goes to church."
-Eric Adjetey Anang
The first thing that I am struck by while driving from Accra to Teshie is the vast number of churches linin.....
2011-06-17
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Art Unlimited is a curated sector of the Art Basel exhibition that is comprised of Major projects [i.e.: installations], which are exhibited in a hall of its own, separate from the Art Basel gallery booths. Art Unlimited can be compared to many of the major Using biennials, however only .....
