Saturday, 7 February 2015

Dilemma of a nocturnal artist



I've been at this "night class" drawing. Several people walk up to my
table to admire my ongoing work, but their approaches differ, in very
amusing ways.

A comes, peers hard at me, then at the work, then at me again. "You be
wizard, baba", he exclaims. "How una dey use biro dey paint?"

B is a lady. She looks at the work in utter disbelief and before she
passes her remark, she takes the pen out of my finger's faint grasp and
stares pointedly at it like it's a mystical object. "Like seriously, is this a
normal biro?", she asks, still dazed.

C comes by too (and there are several pure clones of this C guy tonight)
and asks, "abeg bros, shey na you dey draw this thing?"
"Yes", I tell him.
"Like, shey na biro you take do everything and you sure say na you dey
draw am?"
Now that makes me feel slighted, but what can I do?

Worse still, D drools to my table and says "guy, you print this thing?"
You go fear questions fa. FUNAABites can really bite harder than Suarez
sometimes o.

Ara 'deinde
#empireofbards
Feb '15.

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