Let's go to the continent of Africa, where clothing flows with graceful, billowing lines.
The bearded man in the foreground is holding a harp-like, gourd-based kora. We would imagine he's a griot.
It was not my intention to portray the people in the mid ground in a scuffle. They were supposed to be dancing. But, sh*t happens. Even outside a mosque, sometimes.
The mud and wood mosque of Djenne is a monument. The expanses of smooth, hard mud wall are studded by the protruding ends of the structure's wooden skeleton.
First sketch of 08, I do believe.