Who Will Raise This Child

This summer, our hectic travel experience was eased by the Airport Art Program at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. We made time to take a leisurely walk through the Zimbabwe: A Tradition In Stone permanent art collection of twenty contemporary stone sculptures from Zimbabwe. You can read more about the collection here.

Who Will Raise The Child by Gladman Zinyeka. Photo:Mama Shujaa, Hartsfield Int'l Airport
I like this perspective of Exercising Man.



Wiki njema!

Mama Shujaa.

Comments

  1. Sarah LaurenceAugust 12, 2010 at 8:53 PM

    Exercising Man is brilliant - totally captures morning stretches. I'm amazed that you have such interesting art in your airport.

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  2. CeeAugust 14, 2010 at 11:42 AM

    Beautiful art

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  3. MtnGrlAugust 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM

    How nice to have a de-stressor like that in an airport!

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  4. JanelleSeptember 17, 2010 at 12:46 AM

    mama! wewe! ni wapi, dada??? kazi tu? thanks for swinging by mine and for your lovely comment...waiting patiently for you to post something....love and salaams from A Town, x j

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