This below is a writing by the artist Eric Tournaire. It's interesting and revealing reading - but I have to tell you that I had to run it through Google's translator to go from French to English, so I can't stand by everything that it says. Nonetheless, I felt it worth including here:

In a drawing, there are all drawings,
In a table, there are all tables,
In music, there are all sorts of music
In the legend, there are all legends,
Africa and I met in a history painting,
Shapes and colors, and our brushes were immediately granted.

In one story, there are all the stories;
When I start a picture, which is the Africa in me
The full, enriched me specifying details such as a griot
I narrate their stories and myths, legends and stories.

These Histoires - là, I built with my pencils, pens and brushes,
With my heart and my memory of human
In one story, there are all the stories.
These Histoires - ci tell the Beginning, the grand beginning, the first-ever early origins
Like all humans knows, children as well as adults.
How come all, the animals and bugs, small, large and medium-sized ones,
Plants and flowers, trees, women, hunters and warriors,
The lovers, children and babies,
The stars and fish, birds, lizards and gazelles, turtles
And the animals that sing, shout, ran, and those who are hiding.
Those who eat the other, all living beings who feel the heat every day
And the cold, fear, love and anger, grief and joy.

These stories, I am pleased to show them, such as
Grandparents of our ancestors the telling of our ancestors,
Major gestures full of colors and emotions.

One day, Veronica and I will go in one end of the world, very far,
To show my pictures to small children naked on the edge of a jungle,
So they let us tell the story that we recognize ....

In the meantime, I am glad that you are sitting in a circle
Around this fire, to watch with us, once again, the images
This saga that we know well, because

In humans, there are all humans. "