Namib verlange

NAMIB VERLANGE “Namib Longing“ is an ecoprint of Himba Ochre and Eucalyptus on heavy weave organic hemp

1400 x 950 mm (framed in a kiaat box frame)

i’ve got it she said, i got your Himba Ochre

what a wild adventure

a skinny white girl in search of ochre

it left the Himba trader in a state confusion

hard as rock

i hammer at it now

adding eucalyptus

adding boiling water

i wonder

if the trader could ever imagine the journey

of her jiffy-bag-full Himba Ochre… 

leoni aucamp