here to see art objects that were created from natural materials that I collected on my frequent trips to the Sahara. There you can discover my love of the desert, where I would like to share with you.
This sympathy also goes to the Bedouins, in their mentality reflects the impact of the region. They live in small villages on the edge of the desert south of Tunisia. This oasis is surrounded by gardens, in which dates, pomegranates, vegetables and grasses are grown for their animals. Goats, sheep, chickens sometimes a dromedary are housed together in palm fronds limited sandy terrain. Woven goods such as carpets and traditional wool capes are produced on homemade looms in the open only a few centimeters are stretched over the floor.
The former nomads live together in extended families. Even today, they bake their bread in the sand and often cook not only the usual tea on an open fire in front of their huts.
These people have let me come unusually close. I experienced, what they were laughing and what they suffer. I chatted with the elderly, let me hug them, and received their joy of my visit.
Most Bedouin are so full of smiles and happiness, so full of love and helpfulness. You can not mask their faces. You can read them in any sense. Because of their natural curiosity about life beyond nature I had to answer many questions.
I could live with several Bedouin families for a few weeks in the quiet of the desert. No roads, no plumbing and no electricity! There were donkey carts and camels, tasty food, refreshing spring water every night and a warm fire. The wood of this was in the seemingly barren desert collected, in which there is yet time and again blooming shrubs and flowers.
have in this community, I understood that it is a terrific ability to get along with little possession. For the former nomads once roamed through the desert to their animals again and again to provide new food courts. Personal property was limited to the necessities of life to facilitate the transport.
My love for the simplicity of life I have expressed in the exhibits that can be seen here.
Since compulsory education in Tunisia had this primitive people give up their familiar way of life and find their way to civilization. If you live in a hut, you need local food for the animals. It must be grown or purchased. When children go to school, they need school supplies and some clothing. These things must be paid. If in a village, instead of directly is in nature, one can eat only with the help of a profession his family. The survival skills of a Bedouin in the desert, in the community of semi-nomads rather than power is required, for which one pays a wage. The production of crops, animal products or handicrafts hardly find a market because it attempted to feed themselves by each family.
I've often be seen that the Bedouin do not recognize their skills from those Tunisians living for many generations of civilization. The lack of recognition is reflected, among other things, that they not insured for a pittance for travel agencies and guides working while the employees of the agencies are represented and have their organization pay well. But the Bedouin families have often not even enough money to afford a doctor. They give desert travelers from Europe to the unknown size of the sand a sense of security, day and Night available for them and share with them their love of nature.
I had committed volunteer for the concerns of the Bedouin, transported, used clothing, old-fashioned appliances, tools, and much more to Southern Tunisia. I organized for small groups, individual tours, drew attention to the beauty of the desert in Europe and escorted tourists who wanted to learn about the desert. In these journeys the work of the guides was paid directly and appropriately.
would like this exhibition is not only I my love of this region share with you but also remind that there are people who are worthy of support in their struggle for existence to be.
happy I will be personally available if you want to know more about the Bedouin, or you want to experience a stay in the desert.
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