Etendue YAU JOHN Nawaf Bin Ayyaf

Nawaf Bin Ayyaf

c’est peut-être un roman

où toute la folie – et l’histoire – de l’homme semble se télescoper

and his personal and professional friendships

Etendue YAU JOHN Nawaf Bin AyyafWhen I was a child, my father would take me to the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam and wed sketch the elephants together. Observing, looking at animals with attention, was instilled in me from then on. Near the end of his life, when my dad was suffering from Alzheimers disease, we visited the elephants in Rotterdam one last time. In his pencil drawings from this outing, the elephants appear as abstractions, conveying something direct and genuine, often