
oil paint on 100x120 cm canvaes
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She is dancing the tornu at the sound of drums or (batuku), the mix of color in the circle around her , represents a kind of trance that de dancer who knows and dance the tornu feel while rotating her hips and hit the Standing bare footed on the ground, the sound of tchabeta, which is plastics bags that are wrapped and placed between the legs, wich the drummers use as a tool to play on instead of the drum.
this paint is not finished yet, in spaces that are still around I think I'll do
a collage of several situations involving the life of a young traditional girl,of the interior of the islands of Cape Verde.
They also use a cloth which is a typical cloth of the Capverdian islands called (panu di terra), the cloth is tight around the hips towards the movements of the hips is more pronounced.

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