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 World Records title for my project ‘The Journey of Humanity’." Image Credit: Clint Egbert/Gulf News

“My ankles are quite sore,” says British artist and philanthropist Sacha Jafri who recently unveiled his Guinness World Record-holding painting, ‘The Journey of Humanity’, in Dubai. It’s a type of pain that Jafri is quite familiar with. “I paint for 18-20 hours at a time. I stop when I collapse, I run out of energy, I’m exhausted. And the next day I look at what I’ve done and either it’s beautiful or it’s oh dear…And I don’t really know what I’ve done until the next day so sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” he explains.

This time, the gamble paid off. Jafri, who usually divides his time between studios in London, New York, Singapore and Dubai was stilled in place because of COVID last year, when he noticed a change in world weather. “It was really the start of COVID that I felt that humanity had become very disconnected from the soul of the earth. And then our world had become full of static. And then COVID-19 hit us. And it didn’t just hit a country or a continent - it hit the world. The static left our world, it was extraordinary. And there was a beautiful silence. Cycling That's What I Do I Ride I Drink Coffee and I Know Things Poster

“And it was a silence that needed to be heard. So I wanted to create a painting that would inspire and evoke societal change and maybe a higher consciousness, so we can understand the importance of empathy and love to heal our planet and use this small window of opportunity to make a change that could potentially last forever. If we can’t change now, we never will,” he says.

From this thought was born the 17,000 square-foot experiment that turned out to be the largest canvas in the world. Set up in the ballroom of Atlantis, The Palm, ‘The ‘Journey of Humanity’ incorporates messages of hope, of life from children from all over the world. “They are all very inspiring. I guess the one that stood out was from a four-year-old from a slum of India. These kids are living 10 to a hut, 4 metres by 4 meters, and they have nothing. They use the same water to cook, to go to the loo, to drink, and it’s the same water that the cows are releasing their stuff into. And that’s how they live. But this child sent a picture and it was a little girl hugging the world. It really touched me. Because I knew that child had nothing, but she had so much love. And a lot of hope, which was inspiring.”

He says it was these rays of sunshine that would rouse him from his stupor on days when exhausted he’d think of slowing down. They would spark in him the need to continue, to create. This drive to fashion an almost living construct is a part of who he is. He says: “for me, I’m in a very deep trance when I paint from the subconscious. And I tap into something deep in the subconscious and then I just act as a vessel. I let the paint sort of drip through my soul, through the arm, through the hand, through the brush and onto the canvas. And I’m not really aware of what’s happening. And I paint for 18-20 hours at a time.”

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