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Care has been taken to make sure that these drawings look familiar to the people
and are typical of their area. In fact, for several of the drawings, there are alternative
versions that can be matched with the particular dress and customs of the village
where the workshop is held.
For example, here are 3 alternatives for the man in the first drawing.
The first few drawings in the series are intended to help members of the group
realize how they change their surroundings through their daily activities. They
recognize how ‘the farmer in the picture’ is able to change a brush patch or strip of
forest into a maize or bean field. By cultivating it, he changes or transforms a part of
the ‘world of nature’ into the ‘world of culture’. In a similar way, the woman in the
second picture transforms ‘nature’ into ‘culture’ by shaping clay into a pot