Sweeping Courtyard in Dakar
by Rick Rivers
Late afternoon sun slants through the open metal gate of a Dakar courtyard, illuminating a dust-moted workspace where a woman in a vibrant wax-print wrapper sweeps the concrete floor with a traditional palm frond broom. Beside her, a stack of mismatched aluminum pots sits near a low stone sink, their surfaces reflecting the warm, golden light. A rusted iron gate handle, worn smooth by decades of use, anchors the foreground, against the bright, saturated colors of her clothing and the surrounding painted walls. A quiet, domestic rhythm, with the broom bristles kicking up fine particles that dance in the shafts of light, showing the texture of the worn ground and the lived-in reality of the space.
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