However, for the first few days after the painters did the gate, I was thinking that they needed to come back and finish the job!
Then after a few weeks, the stripe of ornaments in the middle began to bother me - the gate isn't balanced!!
When I mentioned this to my friend - she laughed, and said that her guard had pointed out to the painters that they didn't finish a line. Their response was that they left it this way to be "artistic"!!
Though I have an artistic bent ... apparently not in the same manner of these particular Nigerien painters. So, I guess I am going to have to get used to feeling unbalanced when I look at this gate - as it is apparent no one is coming back to finish the last segment of painting!
I thought this would make a fun poll of my friends and blog followers. Slightly OCD like me - or artistic in the manner of the painters? What is your vote:
artistic vs. unfinished?
1 comment:
Artistic then... I don't want to label you OCD. The unfinished aspect of the gate does remind me that I am also unfinished and longing to BE finished!
Thanks for the light-heart-ed post!
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