D.S. Poonia, chief secretary to the state government of Manipur in parched, dirt-poor Imphal, looks forward to the investment and jobs that might flow along these new commercial arteries.
We pause to hold mi hijita's palm to the ground so she can touch the parched red dirt of her ancestors.
This is a harrowing and stupendous journey: from Timbuktu to Araouane, a town founded in 1575 at a group of wells where caravaners have been stopping for thousands of years, and on to the salt mines of Taoudenni, "situated on utterly lifeless desert flats; not a single leaf, or even thorn, grows from the parched, crusty dirt, which was so sharp it bit into the soles of my bare feet".
SANTO ANTÔNIO de JESUS, Brazil In the opening scenes of a new Brazilian movie, a 7-year-old boy roams barefoot through the parched, cactus-filled dirt of the northeastern town of Caetés, collecting water from a creek where cows drink while his mother waits in the one-room house he shares with seven brothers and sisters.
It's located in the middle of an uninviting expanse of brown dirt where even parched desert shrubs struggle to grow, right on the coast of a Caspian Sea that glistens with the rainbow swirls of leaked oil.
His dried earth artworks are reminiscent of parched deserts, forgotten lava, and scorched dirt, yet they contain a colourful magic to them that alludes to opportunities for spiritual transcendence, like the oasis in the desert or the cave-covered cenote; a magic that happens only by spending time surveying the works and letting your thoughts go on an adventure.
His dried earth artworks are reminiscent of parched deserts, forgotten lava, and scorched dirt, yet they contain a colorful magic to them that alludes to opportunities for spiritual transcendence, like the oasis in the desert or the cave-covered cenote; a magic that happens only by spending time surveying the works and letting your thoughts go on an adventure.
