Drawings from Youth of Suai

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[Note: Click on a photo to get the ‘gallery’ to pop up then scroll through the gallery using the ‘Next’ and ‘Back’ buttons near the top on the sides.]

Pencil and crayon drawings by Domi.

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Domi (foreground) and Almeida (back) with other kids (checking back to get other names)

When Pat Jessen from the Friends of Suai, put out the word there would be art materials available in the Suai Community Centre every afternoon for local youth to use, about four kids responded. Domi, Almeida and a couple of others whose names I didn’t get. I remember Domi because he came every day. That is Domi’s work in the gallery above. As you can see some of it is copy work and some from his imagination.

Pencil and crayon drawings by Almeida

I remember Almeida for a few reasons. The first reason is that Alberto one of our friends in Suai told us his nephew had been to Japan as an artist and won a prize. The second is that when we asked Sergio for the names of some artists who might be interested he told us about Almeida and took us to his home where we found it covered with his drawings and paintings. With one that was very similar to a picture I had seen in Sergio’s bedroom/studio. Then, when a group of media workshop students decided to do a story about Suai as an art city they also went to see Almeida. Above are the drawings he did at the Community Centre.

Below is a collection of pencil drawings by the unnamed boys.

Unsigned drawings


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