Morocco's painted rocks, near Tafrout. Someone told me that Jean Verame, who painted the rocks 25 years ago, did it as a statement of love for his wife. My main question was how Morocco felt about some Belgian guy spray-painting a bunch of its rocks. But as it turns out, by 1984 Verame wasn't just some Belgian guy. Four years earlier, he had been
granted 10 tons of paint by the United Nations to paint part of the Egyptian desert blue. Reliable information on exactly how much of the desert he painted is hard to come by, but one source claims it was 80 square kilometers.
According to
this site, Verame seems to have broken into the rock-painting business in Amarillo, Texas, of all places. I'd like to check out the mountain he painted in northern Chad. And I need to catch the film about the time he threw a thousand bronzes into the Sahara desert from a plane. Quite a guy, Jean Verame.
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