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stilts
Posted on November 25, 2006 @ 7:21 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, people, travel, wordpress
Sometimes simple inventions make life profitable. Near Weligama, in Sri Lanka southernmost area, you will see the stilt fisherman. These-fishermen, whose unique style of fishing involves casting their lines from a perch on a sturdy pole 20-50 meters out to sea, stand patiently on stilts and fish for their daily catch. Nobody seems to know how or where this unusual technique originated, but it works, as the stilts are passed on from generation to generation and jealously guarded. I don’t know the kind of small fish they are actually fishing but I know it is quite valuable on the market. That’s why each stilt belongs to a fisherman who wouldn’t sell his place by any mean given the value of the fish and also the money he can get from tourists stopping there…
2005 Tsunami tragically washed away this ancient and fragile apparatus. Actually a project called Sri Lanka Tsunami Memorial Reef & Fish Farmers Program aims to erect concrete pilings on the sea floor and re-establish this traditional way of fishing.
Illustration Friday’s topic is: invention
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15 people have left comments
I like your style. Reminds me of rousseau. I really like the way you do water.
This is fantastic. I love the image and the explanation!
great invention!
great art work! :D
Great history lesson as well as a nice piece.
First off, I really like the textile patterns here. Very nice. And I just have to say that since I have now had a little time on Illustrator, it’s kinda cool that I recognize the effect in the clouds. Very good use of that tool.
Ciao, come stai?
è molto bello questo disegno - mi spiace tanto di non leggere bene i tuoi post scritti in inglese mi incuriosiscono parecchio - ne scrivi uno in italiano per me? :-)
ciao buoni giorni
frà
Pretty!!I would like to decorate my house with this illo!
(the stilt fisherman are very courious)
moves, I saw photos of this fishingstyle before, unbelievable invention; how did they ground them?
regards, Ulrich.
you continually amazes me with your style. and thanks for the info. didn’t know about them until now. Really very interesting.
WOW! I have never heard of this before! Amazing!!! Heartwrenching that they lost their stilts though! I hope they do replace them as it is so wonderful and they probably feel lost without them! I love this, you do the best posts of all and your illo is fab!
This piece has lots of rhythm. Fantastic job on the reflection of the water and the patterns as well!
this is great all around
Not only fun to look at but I learned something too! :-)
I like your illo better than the photos.
Great one!