![]() "I was born with my hands and legs paralyzed, but as time went by, my legs started to function with the help of medical treatment," Bekele said in a recent interview with the Xinhua News Agency.īekele had to take a ride on his mother's back while going to a traditional Ethiopian kindergarten, dubbed Priest's School, until he turned 11 when he started to stand on his feet and learned to walk gradually.īekele first started painting at the age of 12 when he started to use his feet to draw things around him, seizing a pencil between his toes. ![]() Sitting in front of a canvas in his small living room in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, 49-year-old artist Yoseph Bekele is fully absorbed in the creation of his new piece of art, drawing a painting of an Ethiopian countryside landscape with his mouth.Īround him, collections of his paintings over the years, consisting of physical aspects such as landscape, cityscapes and portraits, make colored decorations in his room.īekele lives in a small and compacted room along with his wife and three children in one of the slums located at the heart of Addis Ababa.īorn disabled, Bekele is chasing his dreams of becoming a painter against all odds and is now considered one of the most admired artist painters in Ethiopia. ![]()
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