The Beauty of the Simple Life

[Jacaylbaro]

[NGONGE]

^^ Sudan, right?

 

This scene will go well with Talal Madaax's "Suwaycaat Al Aseel"....

 

 

كم تذكرت سويعات الأصيل

وصدى الهمسات ما بين النخيل

أنت في حبك ووجد لي طويل

وارى الذكرى دواء للعليــل

فاتق الله بحبي يا حبيبي

 

أنا ألقاك صباحـا ومسـاء

بخيالي أنت يا أحلى رجاء

أنت لي حلم و نور وهــناء

فمتى يقضى بلقياك القضـاء

لست أدري بحبي يا حبيبي

 

قلت لا تنسي عهودي واذكريني

حين بيتي ُلف بالصمت الحزين

لست أنساك وإن وافيت حيني

لست أنسى الوجه وضّاء الجبين

لن أخون العهد يومًا يا حبيبي

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Dont you just love woman in red

[wyre]

Jb Muxuu Waxaas Ka Yaqaan Adna

[NGONGE]

^^ Jb can read Arabic and understand most of it.

 

Xaaji X,

 

Did you see a woman wearing red when you did this:

 

[Jacaylbaro]

That is my dream life now ,,,

 

NG, I think it has nothing to do with Jacayl ,,,, just life ,, i mean ,, the real Somali life

[Tallaabo]

The picture is depicting a typical rural house in India or Pakistan not Sudan. The simple life is hugely desirable when you get tired of the constant stresses and worries of today’s consumerist world but such a simple life comes with its fair share of disadvantages as well.

Don't you guys think this scene reeks of sexism? I mean the wife should also be lazing around, doing nothing like the guy.

[wyre]

Buy A House Like That Labo Riyo Oo Labo Yar Yar Haystaan, dhoor digaagad And Marry me A Wife

[NGONGE]

Tallaabo;862649 wrote:

The picture is depicting a typical rural house in India or Pakistan not Sudan. The simple life is hugely desirable when you get tired of the constant stresses and worries of today’s consumerist world but such a simple life comes with its fair share of disadvantages as well.

Don't you guys think this scene reeks of sexism? I mean the wife should also be lazing around, doing nothing like the guy.

It's by a Sudanese artist called Abu Al Xasan Madani. Here is some more:

 

 

 

[Tallaabo]

^^ Thanks for the correction.

[chubacka]

Obviously this is a newly wed couple otherwise there would be 5+ kids destroying the peace!

[Jacaylbaro]

:D .... I believe the 3 of them are sleeping now and the other two are out for schools

 

But I agree with you here ....

[Jacaylbaro]

Maad fahmin adigu ,,,,,

[Taleexi]

"KISS" comes to mind.

[Alpha Blondy]

two words: nostalgia and rural romanticism!

 

both are a distortion based on a melancholic, blurred figments of and imaginations of identity, belonging and sense of place. the simple life doesn't have to be nor idealised the countryside as a place of the quiet idyllic living but rather around a life better lived based on your basic human needs.. Unfortunately, however, the reality could not be far more different. it’s a difficult life of subsistence and dependency on the elements.

 

these pictures are interesting, not least because of some supposed inside knowledge and 'affinty' the artist is 'othering' and indeed exoticising the rural people and their daily activities for 'an outside audience' and not merely for local consumption, since they care not for such delusions. these simplified constructions are dangerous for two reason;

 

1. it risks creating a mockery of and caricatures the rural lifestyle.

 

2. it commodifies the rural lifestyle and seeks to make economic benefit from the consumption of this art for 'others' or nostalgic diaspora. it does this by creating an idealised version of what constitutes the rural life. this in turn portrays the rural experience as a single entity, when the rural experience is as multi-faceted and diverse as the urban and city experience.