About This Project

I figured this particular work deserved an exotic title, hence – Ngorongoro – pronounced un-go-ron-gor-o.
It is in fact a bloody enormous crater formed two and a half million years ago in what is now known as Tanzania, Africa.
Un-go-ron-gor-o is now a wildlife reserve where tourists are driven around sitting in khaki-painted Land Rovers as they take out their iPhones and photograph fornicating male lions.
Flamingoes, of the pink variety, also flock to the reserve where they congregate in vast numbers to stand in shallow water trying to look attractive to the opposite sex.
Which being pink and a flamingo isn’t that difficult.
For those of you with a thirst for knowledge these birds avoid waters with fish, preferring to scoop-up amounts of algae and brine shrimp. With the all to obvious result, their feathers turn pink!
Naturally, I’ve never been to Tanzania nor owned a flamingo so, obviously, this is not a plein-air painting nor a work achieved using an iPhone snap-shot.
No, what you see before you is entirely a work of invention, an enigma.
I would, however one day, like to visit Ngorongoro or maybe in another life come back as a pink flamingo!