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Rain Angel,
"A sentient prayer for peace in Sudan."
Completed, January 6th, 2005
Rain Angel is a juxtaposition of spiritual symbols from world cultures, primarily Egyptian and Sudanese.
This piece began to manifest in the autumn of 2004, when I first learned of the political strife occurring in Sudan. At the time I was freelancing in Golden, Colorado. My chief marketing officer urged me to look into the situation in Sudan. There was also a large group of Sudanese "Lost Boys"
living in Boulder. A few months later Rain Angel was born. The situation in Sudan continues to make news headlines:
Quoted from:
Sudan, Journal of my Journey,
by Anita Sandborn
http://www.newmorningtv.tv/sudan.jsp
"On January 6th 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed by Dr. John Garang and President Omar Hassan Bashir. There were celebrations around the world. We had a big one in Denver later that month.
This was time of great hope for the Southerners and they talked of returning home and rebuilding. Yet the conflict in Darfur worsened each day and the whole world watched again as genocide spread across Sudan, this time obliterating not Christians or infidels but Muslims. The conflict was again a complex brew of race and ethnicity, religion, but most of all about power and control of resources: oil, water and fertile land."
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