queenelizabeth
April 13, 2007
queenelizabeth
Originally uploaded by aaronforest.
Queen Elizabeth poses with her bracelets in Opuwo, Namibia. Kunene Region. She also gives Himba village tours. I may ask her to teach the bracelet carving craft (PVC pipe–I need to look up health issues with wearing PVC on your wrist–I remember greenpeace doing actions about children’s toys with PVC, and all that stuff about vinyl as a building material) to bring back to my mom’s after school program.
ruacana2
April 13, 2007
ruacana2
Originally uploaded by aaronforest.
sunrise rainbow. imagine being there. now imagine being there after living in an arid country/area with no rivers, except when it floods. imagine my happiness being here.
mom, i’m taking you here when you visit, get ready.
protptype 4 delivery to CAA Oshikuku
April 13, 2007
p4-CAA team
Originally uploaded by aaronforest.
The Catholic Aids Action Office Staff poses with the bicycle ambulance protoytpe that they are testing. This is the fourth prototype, very similar to the production model. Amber was a superstar arranging the workshop from their side, and Clarisse from ours (BEN Namibia). Thank you Yelula/Ibis for funding the prototyping phase, including this ambulance.
ruacana falls
April 13, 2007
ruacana-aaron
Originally uploaded by aaronforest.
There will be more about this moment of bliss when i can come up for air from suffocation under a pile of 5 ambulances. grandted, they are bicycle ambulances, but ambulances nonetheless. Ruacana falls, that’s almost angola in the background, one of those revialization moments, “I can keep on, and even be happy doing so”, shake-you-to-the-bones-with-the-power-of-falling-water excitement, and on top of it all, the question, “why do i like being wet so much?” Maybe because I live in Namibia, where rivers are generally sandy dips in the road marked by a sign with blue water-like squiggles.
Wood carving lessons
April 13, 2007
Originally uploaded by aaronforest.
That’s the head that Arthur and I carved together–he showing me the finer details of filing in this photo, and hacking away with a chopper/axe, about 1/2″ from the fingers, to a 1/8″ accuracy. It’s humbing, really, to be so clumsy.
