Congratulations on the Upvote. I'm glad that your passion for collage has found such a beautiful resonance.

How you have changed Shaka's picture is fantastic. As always accompanied by a story and your associations around it.

That the mountains hold the valleys captive is quite an unpleasant sight, isn't it? To keep off the rain and not let the clouds rain down creates such glowing ovens and I am full of sadness that so seldom rain falls there. But who knows, the larger plan for it may look completely different and like it would be, if the mountains did not border the valleys, I also cannot say.

I had interpreted the photo of Nikola Belopitov first as a caravan, but when I pulled it bigger, I realized that there was no luggage to be seen on the backs of the camels, but that they had strapped on two-seaters. It seems to be a tourist thing? This brings me to the question whether there are still caravans at all. I do not suspect or only to a very small extent.

Anyway, here you have created an illusion of a bygone time, of human and animal effort to cross the pitfalls of a desert and achieve the impossible. A feeling of a thousand and one nights resonates and a nostalgia, which I also associate with films from my childhood.

Loosened up by the funny camels that quickly push their way through the picture. A good combination.