Capernaum of Words

by Jean Loup Pivin

 

 

Neophytes, we're slow at the time to find the right words in the vocabulary of capharnaüm nickname.

 

 

We understand over time that we must change our terminology, and we will have difficulty moving from a 'African Contemporary Art' magazine, to 'Contemporary African Expressions' magazine.

 

 

Doubting the place of the 'African' word and appending sometimes to magazine and sometimes to art.

 

 

To see if we also will write 'worldwilde'. Word more pretentious but probably just, pretentious if taken as a view that wants globalizing, humble though it is only ours.

 

 

Confronting the problem of vocabulary is almost now confront a problem of foreign speeking languages. Despite globalization, we see that certain taboo words here are not elsewhere.

 

And as soon as we touch the flowery fields of forms, then what do we not see ?

 

 

Motherhood, detail of the back sculpture by Bylex-Pume © photo Revue Noire
Motherhood, detail of the back sculpture by Bylex-Pume © photo Revue Noire