I know every groove, every hair, every inflexion on his skin and I can tell you exactly what Mak and I were discussing when I drew each one of them. I have never felt more intertwined with a drawing before when you look at him you see a part of me.
“Nothing gets you out of bed at 4 am like a rendezvous with an elephant in your studio. If I wasn’t working on him, I wanted to be. There was not one day where I didn’t feel his presence in the room with me. “There are no other words for what happened – it was a complete and coherent relationship that formed whereby energy constantly ebbed and flowed between us. Sharing his experience with this incredible elephant on YouTube, David said that from day one they began to interact.
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Makavuzi still lives a “happy and free life” in the park, says David. We called him MUKU then and reared him and a little female elephant named RUNDI when they were waist high until their tusks came and then they went to Imire Game Park in Wedza.” How many thousands of times I stroked this gentle giant, caressed, cajoled, reprimanded and walked with him in the Mukuvisi Woodlands. After watching the video, Cathy wrote yesterday on YouTube: “Not ashamed to say I cried watching this clip of this sensational drawing by David Filer of an elephant I hand reared with a team of volunteers in the 1980’s. Mak is a well-known elephant in Zimbabwe, immortalised in Zimbabwean author Cathy Buckle’s book Rundi about Mak and another elephant she helped rear. The stunning picture, which captures Mak’s soul, was created by talented Zimbabwean artist David Filer with an all-Zimbabwean team taking part in the heartwarming video production. A life-size pencil drawing of an African elephant is bringing its viewers to tears, so magnificent and realistic is the artwork… an homage in fact to a real-life elephant named Makavuzi, affectionately known as Mak.
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