Yosef Baraki was four when a newspaper published his first artwork, a hand-painted hippo. Unfortunately the painting didn’t survive and a quarter of a century later, Yosef still wonders why his crude depiction of an ungulate captured people’s interest.
He can’t recall that he did it on a whim, hastily etching the animal onto a freshly coated canvas, his index finger splitting the paint as if he was parting the red sea.
