After a few years of doing that, I started questioning the relationship the relation of my work within a city in the Middle East at the time, it was somewhat alien from its surroundings, I realized that writing my name was not really different than what political parties have been doing around the city.

She was also one of my first portraits, I used her mural to cover some political posters that were still hanging from a number of years back.

Just that I am raised in a different continent doesn t mean I should adopt an American culture of painting or a European culture of painting, says Wisetwo. People do that all the time.

Citymag, a free magazine distributed monthly in Nouakchott has started to publish my drawings. Maybe that will inspire more people to pick up a pen or pencil and start sketching.

So the humanistic ideal is very, very strong in all this work, encapsulated perhaps by one of my early sketches here, where you can see greenery, you can see sunlight, you have a connection with nature.