Southern Sudan Fashion Model Lucy

Charles Bibbs decorates Lucy before the shoot.








Live drawings of Lucy by Charles Bibbs.


It was the Music and Arts Festival in Los Angeles, and a culture without parts showing an entity, and I poked around finding my humble self bumping into fine artist Charles Bibbs' mobile studio sitting on the back lot of the Vision Theatre on Degnan Blvd. in Leimert Park Village. Bibbs, in the previous week, had told me he would be slamming LPV Music and Arts Festival with his finest arts. What happened? I got there and pulled out my camera and began to take pictures of an original beauty while Bibbs and his artistic colleagues kept busy drawing a portrait of South Sudanese Lucy. It was a class act.

Lucy and I spoke at length and our discourse was Southern Sudan related...The Genocide. The hunger. The excruciating pains and sufferings in her homeland of Southern Sudan. The atrocities. The rape of women and humankind's most gruesome act. Lucy talked about how she escaped all the atrocities landing gracefully in Los Angeles.

I had talked to Lucy while the drawing was taking place at Bibbs mobile studio, and while tourists were trooping in taking a look and wondering how she popped up 'impromptu' to an event the entire City of Angels stomped on.

Lucy was born in Jada, Southern Sudan and now models out of Los Angeles. The photo-Op here was at Charles Bibbs mobile Studio during the Music and Arts Festival in Los Angeles. Proud of her heritage she likes it out here...A lengthy interview has unfolded and Lucy is ready...