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Global Nomads Productions is proud to present the trailer "Visages du Sahara" 7 portraits of Marche Nomade. This exchange with Faical Ben Ali was a way to connect two nomadic ways. One that walks the Sahara desert and one whose eye, the camera, captures special moments in time around the world. Featuring Marche Nomade Benali Faiçal, Croizet Emmanuel, Wissem Ben Ali, Madeline Peloux, Amor Zaied, Amor, Marzoug, Chloe, Murielle, Isabelle, Mary and all those in front and behind the screens that made it possible.

I certified, and officially have become an Emotion code practictioner

Exhibition Guerilla Style 2013 St. Josephs Kerk photos by Dagmar Gerritse. Works featuring Glenn Sluisdom, Dagmar Gerritse, Vanessa v. Gasselt, Nahuel Reyes Gomez

Global Nomads Productions présente le portrait de Emmanuel Croizet, un des sept portraits de “Visages du Sahara. 7 portraits de Marche Nomade”. Pour le prochain stage je cite Emmanuel" Il reste quelques places pour le séjour dans le désert 18th-25th Février 2024. J'aurais vraiment plaisir à partager ce moment exceptionnel avec vous . https://emmanuelcroizetdesert.mystrik..." Marche Nomade est constituée de plusieurs nomades accompagnant des groupes thérapeutiques au milieu du Sahara tunisien. www.marche-nomade.com. La camera fut mon oeil pour capturer les images résultantes de cet échange. De celles- ci naitront sept portraits de ces nomades dont Faïçal Ben Ali est le représentant. Emmanuel Croizet a , quant a lui, dirige les stage et le groupe thérapeutique. Avec chaque portrait, on comprends mieux la totalité de l'expérience et l’importance et le rôle individuel et holistique de chaque participant. www.marche-nomade.com https://emmanuelcroizet.mystrikingly....

#"Fight Night", doko of Thomas and sessions at Casa Lucia Corfu. For more information https://www.casa-lucia-corfu.com/en/activities/event-calendar/eventdetail/33020/-/kung-fu-fight-night

The familiar sound related to the Arabic language, the rhythms and melodies of the songs, and the grace of the culture is a deep nostalgia due to my upbringing in Morocco for 5 years as a child. These are the lost roots that I reconnected to and another solid reason for my answering the call. To this day, my mother paints palm trees, we grew up eating tagine and couscous. She too grew up amidst the Arabic culture, so on a DNA ancestral level this voyage brought me closer to home once lost now found, inside my heart.

The Sahara called me and I responded because I was willing to travel inside myself. Even though there was so much to see and experience outside of me,  the silence brought me closer to the sound of my heartbeat, the sound of the blood flowing through my veins, my pains, my frustrations, and all the things that were screaming inside of me to be released...Thanks to Emmanuel Croizet who was guiding the group from the French side, I managed to identify and free what needed to be released.

Thanks to having nearly two weeks for this caravan, we had a chance to dive into different landscapes. There were small dunes, big dunes, flat rocky deserts, white sand, and pink sand. We arrived at two wells where we could take a fresh shower. The contrasts I experience when traveling always help me get to know myself better. It is not always easy, for at times, I may experience resistance to certain situations, behaviors, or customs. At the same time in other areas, I feel the magical and beautiful contrasts represent me on a soul and heart level as they naturally expand my spirit.......https://www.marche-nomade.com/

Amor, the cook, had to leave the caravan and join his brother for his marriage. After four days he returned with Ayman who had dropped him off by motorcycle. Seen this was in the middle of the vast desert it was astonishing to see them appear suddenly. Ayman stayed the night joining the feast, chanting and dancing. In the morning after filling up the motorcycle with 2-liter bottles of gasoline, he and Wissem tried to get the bike started. It didn't, Wissem mentioned this always happened, and eventually, after about 40 minutes of running and pushing we heard the motor revived... https://www.marche-nomade.com/

Every day the same rituals are performed in the Sahara. There are fires burning throughout the day. To bake bread, for warmth, for cooking, for contemplating for a reunion. I was told that the nomad's relationship with fire serves as something similar to, for us, a compass. Connecting them to higher realms. Wood is fetched sometimes from afar and collected for the fire. https://www.marche-nomade.com/

In the desert you learn to take one step at a time....you learn to take on the steadfast rhythm of the dromedaries and the nomads. I realized I needed to not just calm down my pace but in fact, find a steadiness to it.https://www.marche-nomade.com/

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One day I joined the oldest Amor, dromedary herder,  his place in front of the caravan. The wind was strong and his song was constant. I realized as were were approaching the open desert, high on the dunes, that there were pathway appearing before us. It was like a moving highway opening up before our eyes. 

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Proud to have my artwork 'Solidarity' on the cover of this new book of Kim Watts. (https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Solidarity/498784/2611290/view)