A Conversation for Islands and How They are Made

These have always fascinated me.

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Alfredo




Islands, yes, these have always fascinated me from childhood on, but I hardly visited these.
At Dutch TV. we had a program for many years; (translated)"The World of Boudewijn Büch" and he (died a few years ago, 55) had many fascinations, from books to Napoleon, from the Rolling Stones to Islands.

In a series about Islands he visited a lot of these, just for the sake of seeing it by himself; just for having been there once.

Ugly Islands -flat, green and only óne house - beautiful paradise Islands (where he met a man who just had returned from Rotterdam as a sailor!), Islands around Cuba, etc. etc.

He had that curiosity of a child; don't think, just feel and find out.

Yes, his visits compensated a lot of "Island visits" I'd like to do.

Often, an island is not that magical at all, but even that can be an experience that I would not want to have missed.


Last year I bought a big book about Islands and choral reefs all around the world, and also a book about all countries from the world.

So page after page, island after Island I studied and made marks at a map.

"Diving, The World's Coral Reefs"



Having seen and sometimes even studied these Islands, I started to paint free style as my answer, or just reaction to it all.

You can see some at " Gallery 42, the venue for h2g2 artistic offerings."

http://public.fotki.com/Mudhooks/gallery_42/h2g2_friends_art_album/koraal_141.html


Greetings from Amsterdam


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