Liberia Trip

July 7th, 2010

In June, I was invited to go along with a group from the Grove Church in Chandler, AZ to join them on their Love Liberia Project. LLP was a multi-faceted trip ranging from leadership training to hosting free medical clinics. I came along to do live painting during the pastoral training events and the evening gatherings…. but in the midst of everything, I also became the filmer and random art maker.

This pic above and below is from the afternoon I decided to set up my easel in the shady town of Buchanan. I’ve only open-aired landscape painted twice before, so it was a fun challenge. Within 30 minutes of starting, I had a group of 50 people watching me. Apparently live painting doesn’t happen often in Buchanan.

I brought Ecclesia’s Canon 7D camera with me to do some filming during the trip. This was mostly to get some experience in filming overseas and to move forward in the ideas I have to combine the making of art and the unique stories of others. I ended up doing a lot of recording of the work of the Grove in Liberia and ended up telling their stories. Here’s some of the films I put together.