![]() ![]() Claerhout's studio, often on foot, is a favorite model, along with her daughter Popi, a five-year-old, light-skinned child with blue eyes and softly waving hair. ![]() Niki, who posed originally because she desperately needed the money and was willing to travel thirty-five kilometers to Fr. Niki, the mother in this painting and the main character in this novel, poses often for Father Frans Claerhout, an artist whose expressionistic paintings in bright colors feature native South Africans as the models for religious paintings. But there is hardly any shade because the trees do not bear leaves. ![]() She gave birth to the trees so that they could provide her with shade. And she spends her red days lying naked on the red soil between two peach trees with blue trunks. A raw sienna mother with splashes of crimson. ( Jump down to read a review of The Heart of Redness) ![]()
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