[DAC] Bread & Synchronicity

[Lucilda Cooper]

Bread is a staple for most Egyptians in Cairo.

A course-ground wheat bread is subsidized by the government and sold  
through state approved bakeries that get subsidized wheat. Like most  
third world countries, the subsidy system is a means of money-making  
for the greedy who don't care about anyone else's starving babies  
while they provide their obese offsprings with the latest gadgets and  
too much food.

There is much abuse in the system.



Bread sold on the street in Cairo

As the cost of living spirals up and wages stay ridiculously low, the  
lines for purchasing bread gets longer and longer.
Many housewives devote almost the entire day waiting in a queue to  
purchase this subsidized bread to feed their families if they have no  
man to buy for them.


Bread queue in a suburb of Cairo

Tempers flare, unusually so in this gentle and polite society, and  
there have been some killings while waiting to purchase bread. Many  
times the bakeries run out before the queue has ended, and people  
sometimes get their bread stolen, snatched from their triumphant  
hands right after purchasing.

The bread lines and killings have been a painful situation for me to  
see and hear of.

I try to send email material that can uplift and create  
understanding, not add to the feelings of despair in our world. I am  
of the firm opinion that we create our reality based on the images we  
carry around in our minds. Yes, corny, but true, I want to create a  
better world.

I did not think it will be helpful to anyone to share my pain around  
this issue.

I took it to my canvas.

I have begun painting scenes from life on the streets of Cairo  
interwoven with iconic images from the pharonic past. In this series  
I am questioning the future of Egypt by the merging of the present  
and past.


Detail: Our Daily Bread, oil/canvas,  ©2008, Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper

Yesterday I began adding the winged scarab to the painting.

Several times in my life I am amazed at the synchronicity between my  
painting and what happens in reality.
I wonder if somehow I absorb the information and put it on canvas? No  
wonder the ancient Egyptians see painting and creating images as a  
sacred activity.




Today's headline made me cheer.
I am gratified that the president is finally taking an active stance  
on this touchy issue.

Now I can finish my painting with a lighter heart.

Love,

Lucilda

Visit my website: www.Lucilda.com



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